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The Curtain Falls
In my book, The Curtain Falls, I have told about
my experiences in the spring of 1945 and I shall -
not describe them in detail again. I went to Germany
in February to investigate the possibilities for the
Red Cross to save the Scandinavians in German
concentration camps — to rescue them from the horrible
treatment to which they were exposed and from
certain death during the general chaos due to the
imminent fall of the Third Reich. The result-is well
known. We were able to free not only Scandinavians,
but also a large number of women of other
nationalities. In order to achieve this end I had to get in
touch with Heinrich Himmler, the chief of the
Gestapo and of the concentration camps. During my
conversations with him, events developed in such a
way that suddenly I found myself in the center of
high politics.
Since I wrote The Curtain Falls, many different
books have been published dealing with the last days
of Hitler and events in connection with Germany’s
capitulation. To a great extent, these books are
based on official and secret reports made by the
Allied military authorities, on facts brought to light
during the Nürnberg Trials and on interrogations
of Germans taken into custody. Intensive research
has been conducted concerning events in the Berlin
bunker during the last days of April, 1945. Never-
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