And is already known to the Tribunal. I am not in a position to say when these oral instructions were issued to the Army. In my presence, the Fuehrer never even hinted at any other reason than a purely strategic and operational one. England is hoping for this, the last continental dagger thrust against us, else she would have stopped the war after Dunkirk. Whether privately or under cover, agreements have certainly already been made.
Russian strategy is clearly recognizable.
One day we shall either be crushed politically and left stone cold or we shall be attacked. One could talk about this for weeks on end, but no word was mentioned to me of any other than purely strategical reasons of this kind. When we first contacted the Russians in the Polish campaign the relationship was rather frosty. Units and their equipment were carefully kept secret. There were constantly unpleasant incidents on the San.