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burg, he was killed in an accident when his car
collided with an American military truck. This was a
sad end to a brilliant career — especially as he
intended to retire soon from active military service and
was looking forward to a quiet and peaceful time with
his family in the United States. He had been
separated from them for a long time, but was obviously
thinking of them always, with great love and devo-
tion. j
On my trip to Germany, I was accompanied by
representatives of the Government Relief Committee
and the Save the Children Society, and by the radio
reporter, Sven Jerring, who was preparing program
material to be used later for benefit performances.
I will not detail the negotiations with the British Red
Cross in Vlotho, near the British Headquarters. The
result was an agreement that we should start
Swedish relief activities after the first of the year. We
were to concentrate on Hamburg and the Ruhr
district, and to a lesser extent, on the British Sector of
Berlin.
I must say that the negotiations with the British
authorities, in certain respects, were very slow. I
could not help joking with the British representatives
and comparing the tempo at which they made their
decisions with the rapidity with which Heinrich
Himmler had dealt during my negotiations with him,
about six months before — a joke which the humorous
Englishmen did not mind at all. I went so far as to
say to one of the leading representatives, that I did
not understand how, with all their formalism, they
could possibly have won the Second World War. He
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