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a church spire rushed pass in the milky white fog,
only a few yards from the wing tip. Otherwise, we
saw nothing. The pilot made one effort after another
to land. He had to give up each time. Finally he
succeeded, and we landed. The Swedish minister,
Richert, was there to welcome me, and having
followed our efforts to land from the Tempelhof
control tower, he said that he hardly expected things
to end happily. Afterwards we drove to a manor
house in the country called Alt Döbern, which the
Swedish Legation had rented for the evacution of
their personnel. The fog was so thick that we could
only proceed inch by inch.
Sunday was spent quietly at Alt Döbern, and on
Monday morning, the twenty-second of November,
I drove with the minister and his personnel into
Berlin to confer with the German authorities. The
first person I met was the chief of the foreign
division of the German Red Cross, Herr Hartmann, a
man of the old school with whom the Swedish Red
Cross had collaborated for many years, and who,
despite the Hitler regime, still held his post. He
promised to do everything to interest the authorities
and the leaders of the German Red Cross in the
continuation of prisoner exchanges. He hinted that
it might be possible to include civilian internees in
the next repatriation. This was achieved when the
subsequent exchange took place in Gothenburg.
As I have said, Hartmann was a man of the old
school. The rest of the German Red Cross, however,
had been highly nazified. A typical example was the
acting chief Obergruppenführer Grawitz, a
pronounced party man who was highly in favor during
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