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separated from their parents for three or four years
because of the bombings in the last part of the war.
It is very difficult to identify them, our guide said
with a gesture toward the pathetic pictures of the
undernourished childrens’ faces. ”Where are your
parents?” the posters ask. It is not very often that
this question receives an answer.
From Hamburg we went to Lübeck to inspect
activities there. All shipments of food and clothing at
that time went from Sweden to Germany via Lübeck.
It was necessary to maintain a special transport
detachment there which could forward the shipments
to our different relief centers. The Red Cross
headquarters were located in a house which had been used
before by the Swedish Legation. It was in this house
that my meeting with Himmler took place on the
night of April 23, 1945, during which the
Reichsführer declared himself willing to surrender
Germany to the western Allies. A sign at the entrance of
the house now records this fact. Outside the entrance
a broken iron fence was still lying as a reminder of
the typical episode which happened after the meeting.
Himmler insisted that he drive the car himself, and
in his extreme state of nerves, he drove right into the
fence. The room in which the meeting had taken
place was now the office of the Red Cross. The two
uncomfortable arm chairs in which Himmler and I
sat during our conversation were still there. This
house, in the Eschenburgstrasse in Lübeck has its
place in German history. Here, in this somewhat
shabby structure built in the old-fashioned style of
thousands of middle class residences in German
suburbs, it was admitted for the first time that the
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