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concentratiòn camps. Schellenberg had come to
Sweden for certain conferences in connection with
the capitulation. He stayed in Sweden after the
Armistice and I had the opportunity to talk with
him several times. I also brought him into contact
with representatives of the American and British
Legations in Stockholm. The discussions he had with
these gentlemen resulted in an order for
Schellenberg to report, as soon as possible, to the Allied
Headquarters in Frankfurt am Main.
When I travelled to Germany with Schellenberg on
the eighteenth of June, I had an invitation to visit Air
Chief Marshall Sir Arthur Tedder (now Marshall of
the Royal Air Force, Lord Tedder), who was second
in command to Eisenhower in the Allied
Headquarters. We landed first near Kiel and then in Hamburg.
An extraordinary feeling came over me when I again
found myself on German soil. The last time I was
there, I had the task of handing over to Himmler
the Allied reply to his offer of capitulation.
Scarcely two months had passed since that day.
However, the impression I now received of Germany
was in many ways different from the one I had
received before. At that time the roads had been
crowded with retreating German columns, the traffic
slowed and hindered by continuous Allied bombings.
It was the last act of a terrible drama. Now, standing
on the airfield near Kiel, everything looked peaceful
and quiet again. It is true that we could see a great
many wrecked German planes around the temporary
airstrip. But close by we also saw a peasant, tending
his farm work as if nothing had happened. This was
my first realisation of the fact that while frightful
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