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also believed that a fairly large group of Germans
would still be glad to see him return. Their words,
however, sounded like a memorized lesson. I doubt if
they really believed it.
I was, of course, especially interested to see the
place where the final act of the war had been staged.
The visit there made a very gruesome impression on
me. It was not difficult to imagine the scenes which
had taken place there during the nervewracking and
terrifying last days, when a dictator and his closest
collaborators realized that their lifes work, which
they had once thought would guarantee Germany’s
future, now lay in dust and rubble, worse than that
of the German capital. They had only to glance out
of the narrow entrance of the bunker to get a picture
of the situation. In my opinion, it is a shame that
this bunker has been blown up. The building should
have been preserved as a ghostlike monument, as a
sinister reminder of the fate which befell the man
who stood on the pinnacle of authority but who, in
consequence of his own limitations and his unlimited
thirst for power, was hurled into an abyss.
We left Berlin for our headquarters in Vlotho.
There an invitation was waiting for me from Field
Marshal Montgomery to lunch with him in his
headquarters in the castle of Osterwalde, near the village
of Boern, not far from Osnabrück. During lunch with
the Field Marshal, the situation in Germany was
discussed from a general point of view. Montgomery
characterized the situation as very precarious. Even
though he feared that soon rations in the British
Zone would have to be cut, he had felt obliged to
advise the English government not to send any
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