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reached our destination late at night on the same
day and were welcomed by the owners of the
castle, Prince Otto von Bismarck and his wife,
a daughter of the Swedish architect Ivar
Tengbom. During our whole stay they helped our
work with all manner of practical arrangements,
besides showing us great hospitality and kindness.
A telephone message from Berlin:
Obergruppenführer Kaltenbrunner was on the warpath,
and others in Himmler’s immediate entourage as
well. This information came from the most
reliable source: Brigadeführer Schellenberg, who
had very intimate contact with the Swedish
Legation in Berlin. Kaltenbrunner was trying to wreck
my arrangement with Himmler. On several
occasions he had said to the Danish representatives
in Berlin that I must be very innocent if I
imagined that Swedish Red Cross delegates would
be permitted access to the German concentration
camps, and that to allow Danish and Norwegian
prisoners to be transported to Sweden was
unthinkable. Kaltenbrunner’s reasoning was not
difficult to follow. Not only did the Swedish plan
appear to him wholly unnecessary, but it was
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