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the Hitler regime. In the course of a long
conversation I had with him at a later date, he developed
his general views and attitudes in a characteristically
Nazi spirit. Humanity was, for him, an out-dated and
oldfashioned concept. He said that youth should be
educated for war. The word humanity should be
banned. It should be replaced by chivalry. The
German Red Cross was certainly very well run from
the technical point of view, but idealogically, it had
been totally incorporated into the Nazi community.
I should add that Obergruppenführer Grawitz
committed suicide some months after my conference
with him. Perhaps, inside himself, he was not as
sure of his ideals as he outwardly indicated.
I should have met with both Grawitz and
representatives from the German Foreign Office. However,
this meeting did not materialize. Instead, I came to
know wartime Berlin.
I stayed at the Swedish Legation at
Tiergartenstrasse 36, where Minister Richert was my very
pleasant and hospitable host. On the evening of
November twenty-second, he had invited to dinner
some of the ladies and gentlemen of the Legation.
When I entered the drawing-room, the inevitable
question was posed: was there going to be a bombing
attack that night or not? I felt that we could be
relatively at ease on that evening. There was still
a heavy blanket of fog over Berlin. Richert, however,
did not share my opinion. Experience had taught
him that it was on just such evenings that Allied
raids were most likely to occur. His prophecy proved
correct. Just as We were going in to dinner a message
was telephoned that warnings had come from the air
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