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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conversation on August 16 with State Secretary Baron von Weizsacker: "I was impressed by one thing, namely Baron von Weizsacker's detachment and calm. He seemed very confident and professed to believe that Russian assistance to the Poles would not only be entirely negligible but that the U. S. S. R. would even, in the end, join in sharing in the Polish spoils. Nor did my insistence on the inevitability of British intervention seem to move...
...Polish guarantees Sir Nevile said : "Our word was our word, and we had never and would never break it. In the old days Germany's word had the same value and I quoted a passage from a German book (which Herr Hitler had read) about Field Marshal von Bliicher's exhortation to his troops when hurrying to support Wellington at Waterloo : 'Forward, my children ; I have given my word to my brother, Wellington, and you cannot wish me to break it.' Herr Hitler at once intervened to observe that things were different 125 years...
...Tirade of the whole series came on August 30 not from Hitler but from Ribbentrop. When Sir Nevile Henderson said that Great Britain was advising Poland to avoid provocative action, "von Ribbentrop replied that His Majesty's Government's advice had had cursed (verflucht) little effect. I mildly retorted that I was surprised to hear such language from th Minister for Foreign Affairs." Ribbentrop "read out in German aloud at top speed" a series of demands on Poland a then refused to let Sir Nevile see the text. "Herr von Ribbentrop's whole demeanor during our unpleasant...
...German Commander-in-Chief, Colonel General Walther von Brauchitsch, was reported to have arrived from Poland on the Western Front, with headquarters at Bingen.* The No. 4 Nazi, Rudolf Hess, was reported making a tour of the entire Westwall. The chief of the Nazi labor battalions, Robert Ley, was known to be here & there behind the Wall, driving his men to complete and strengthen the fortifications behind which Germany was preparing either a permanent stand or a counteroffensive the nature of which was darkly dramatized by A. Hitler's reference in Danzig to "a weapon with which we cannot...
...time, seven German armies were concentrated on the French border. The Sixth and Seventh, under Prince Rupprecht and General Herringen, respectively, were massed above and below Strasbourg to drive into the valley of the Moselle. The northern five were to execute the famed "swinging door" plan of Count Alfred von Schlieffen...