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finds, it may be automobile tires or coal, he takes
to the black-market and trades it for money or food.
Without him, the family would certainly perish. I
just wonder what a child psychiatrist would say
about his case. Many might possibly condemn him
as a criminal, but I, for my part, think he is a little
hero.” I could not but share the major’s opinion.
Looking back, I have only depressing memories of
this German trip in the late autumn of 1946. For
example, I recall the tribunal in Hamburg where the
trials of the leaders of the Ravensbrück
concentration camp were held. Both men and women were
sitting on the bench for the accused. I saw faces
reflecting only complete scorn, while others seemed
to display deep despair and remorse. 1 $
I further remember some refugee camps in
Schleswig-Holstein, camps which eloquently bear witness
of the fantastic upheavals in the lives of the German
people since the Armistice. Normally,
Schleswig-Holstein has 1,400,000 inhabitants. Now there were,
on top of this, 1,200,000 refugees, of which 700,000
were still in camps. People were continually pouring
in from the eastern regions, for the greater part
people who were unable to work. At the same time,
1, The British prosecutor at this trial provided me with
very interesting information. He told me that certain
documents which the Allies found after the end of the
war showed that in the German concentration camps,
soon after my first conversation with Himmler, they
had stopped using the crematories for exterminating
prisoners. Of course, this was very happy news to me.
But I pointed out to my English informant that I
could hardly take credit for this; as a matter of fact,
it must have been Schellenberg’s intensive efforts which
induced Himmler to give the necessary orders., I later
informed Schellenberg’s defence counsel of this, Author.
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