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“The military situation is grave, very grave,”
Himmler remarked; but he showed no
inclination to continue the subject.
I departed for Friedrichsruh immediately after
breakfast. After a short visit to our headquarters,
where I made arrangements for the removal of the
women interned at Ravensbrück, I started for
Denmark—to be precise, for the small town of
Padborg, just north of the Danish-German
frontier. There I had the opportunity of inspecting
the excellent arrangements made by the Danish
Red Cross and the Danish authorities for the
reception and quartering of prisoners before they
were removed to other places in Denmark. Here,
too, I saw for the first time the well-known
Fröslev camp, situated near Padborg. Because of
the transportations from Germany that we had
carried out during the past few days, the camp was
very crowded, but spirits were high among the
Danish and Norwegian prisoners. It is true that
they were still being guarded by the Gestapo,
that they were still under German orders, but the
mere fact of having left Germany behind them
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