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The reason for the evacuation of the entire camp
of Neuengamme was the publicity that the Allies
had given to the conditions in the concentration
camps at Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen—though
Himmler insisted that this publicity was a tissue
of lies. I replied that in my opinion the persons
who had reported these conditions were so
trustworthy that one could not doubt the truth of
their accounts. Himmler went completely off the
deep end and gave me the following version of
what had occurred: One of the Allies’ tanks, it
seems, for some reason burst into flames as it
approached one of the camps, and the Allied officers,
thinking this the result of firing by the German
guards, opened fire on the camp, with the result
that one of the buildings was set on fire. This, said
Himmler, was the explanation of the many
charred bodies found when the Allies entered the
camp. “It is outrageous,” the head of the Gestapo
added, “that this camp, which in my opinion was
in model shape, should have become the subject
of these shameless accounts. Nothing has upset me
so much as what the Allied press has published
about this business.”
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