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peace with Russia, and predicted that Field
Marshal Carl Gustaf Mannerheim would soon
share the fate of the Rumanian and Bulgarian
leaders. In other words, he would be shot.
Turning suddenly to the occupied countries,
he said he was convinced that Germany had made
a mistake in dealing too leniently with the
populations of these countries. Then came the climax
of his address. He posed a question. Whom, he
asked, did I regard as the contemporary who had
contributed the most to humanity? Without
giving me time to reply he answered his own
question: “Adolf Hitler. Unquestionably Adolf
Hitler.” Adolf Hitler, said Ribbentrop, was filled
with the friendliest feelings for Sweden. And
there was no one living, he added, whom he
venerated as much as Sweden’s monarch. Here at last
I was able to get a word in. I told Ribbentrop, as I
had told Kaltenbrunner, about the extremely
hostile feeling against Germany among the Swedish
people. But this only gave Ribbentrop an
opportunity to air his own rather original ideas. He said
that this Swedish hostility was deplored in
Germany, but that he personally was quite unable to
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