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Schellenberg’s Story
with you and with Himmler. My endeavors were
in the first place to bring about a peaceful solution
of the Danish and Norwegian problem, in order
that Germany might not further burden herself
with the senseless destruction of the Scandinavian
countries. On April 29th I accompanied you to
Copenhagen to negotiate with, among others,
Doctor Best, and then, as you know, I
immediately returned to Germany. When I arrived at
the place where Himmler was I was informed
that not he, but Dönitz, had been nominated
Hitler’s successor, and that that same night the first
conference between Himmler and Dönitz had
taken place at Plön, in Holstein, and that the
Reichsleiter, in accordance with my earlier
proposal, had succeeded in obtaining the nomination
of Schwerin von Krosigk as Ribbentrop’s
successor. Himmler was very much depressed, for in
the army, too, there was no real appreciation or
understanding of his struggle to obtain an
agreement with the Western powers about
capitulation. Himmler was now considering whether he
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