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Schellenberg also gave me on this occasion the
information that Hitler had issued orders that the
concentration camps at Buchenwald,
Bergen-Belsen, and probably Theresienstadt as well
should be evacuated and the prisoners compelled
to cover a distance of about one hundred and
ninety miles on foot. Schellenberg said that he
had protested strongly against this order, and that
after a stormy discussion he had succeeded in
inducing Hitler to countermand it. The
commandants of the camps had been instructed not to
evacuate them, but to surrender the prisoners to
the Allied troops. Similar instructions would be
given in connection with Neuengamme.
Corruption was rife in Germany. With a
packet of cigarettes, half a liter of spirits, or a
small quantity of coffee one could do pretty much
anything. I had good evidence of what could be
done when I got out of my car at Tempelhof. I
was accompanied by Professor Seip and his wife,
who had joined her husband in captivity.
Himmler had given his consent to their leaving the
country, but their papers had not come through
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