NAZI ARCHIVES
Arrival In London (Rec. 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 30. Thirty railway waggon loads of Hitler’s secrets have arrived in London, says the “Daily Express.” The secrets are the complete archives of the German Foreign Office. They reveal all the diplomatic intrigues by Hitler and his Foreign Minister, von Ribbentrop, before and during the war. They are tied up in thousands of carefully docketed and indexed brown paper parcels which are now being closely examined by British and American experts. Among the documents is a letter from Marshal Petain to Hitler written on August 8, 1944, a fortnight before the liberation of Paris by the Allies. In the letter Petain says: “I implore the Fuhrer as a civilised European not to defend Paris from the Allies so that the last undamaged centre of European culture shall not be destroyed.” There is no record of Hitler ever having acknowledged receipt of the letter.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVII, Issue 23215, 31 May 1945, Page 5
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153NAZI ARCHIVES Timaru Herald, Volume CLVII, Issue 23215, 31 May 1945, Page 5
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