Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-02
BY DANIEL DE LUCE,

Associated Press Foreign Correspondent.
NUREMBERG, Jan. adolf Hit
Ter was pictured today as going to
his death with a defiant prophecy
that his spirit would arise from the
grave and that the world one day
would see that he had been right.
The new version of the Fuehrer's
final hours was contained in long
secret letter written by Joachim Won
Ribbentrop, Nazi Foreign Minister,
to Winston Churchill and Anthony
Eden just before he was captured in
Hamburg last summer. He said Hit
Ter made the prediction in their final
conversation in Berlin, and described
his letter as Hitler's last political
will"
Won Ribbentrop's handwritten let
ter was put on the secret list by
army intelligence when he was
captured, and this is the first dis
patch to quote from it textualy.
Hitler Jittery.
The letter declared the jittery
Hitler intrusted to Won Ribbentrop
the delivery of an appeal to British
statesmen for real friendship be-
tween their empire and Germany
as a fundamental necessity If both
nations will live in the long run"
Hitler also was quoted as saying
he regretted the war with the
United States Further, the Fuehrer
could not help expressing his won
der at the power of the Soviet Union
and called Premier Stains creation
of the Red Army ''grandiose deed,
Won Ribbentrop added.
OF the war with the United States
the letter said:
Hitler regretted the war with
America because we had no possible
Emergencies with this big Nation
We had always regretted this wal
from the beginning and have done
everything we could to prevent II
even when our ships were being at
tackled.
Fuehrer Embittered.
OF Hitler's own political dreams
Won Ribbentrop wrote that the
Fuehrer showed deep disappoint-
ment and enlightenment" about their
failure.
Won Ribbentrop's version of Hit
ler's political will" made orally tc
him bore practically no resemblance
to the Historically worded document
released publicly by British and
American officers last Saturday
That document named cabinet un-
der Admiral Karl Doenitz to carry
on the war, charged Reichsmarshal
Goering and Heinrich Himmler with
treason, and blamed Germany's
downfall on international Jewry.'
The pale and aging Won Rippen.
trop has told American interroga-
tors at the Nuremberg Jail that he
fed Berlin April "a, 1945, on highe,
instructions. Three days later he
informed Hitler that he wanted to
come back and fight beside him, but
was told to stay in the area OF
Nauen. However, the Red Army
advance drove him into the British
zone.
Letter Rambles.
Won Ribbentrop's rambling an6
wheedling letter to Mr.. Churchill
and Mr.. Eden was frankly phrased
to pique their curiosity, If not then
sympathy, and get him trip to
see them personally. 1t recalled
the alleged statement by Hitler al
western front headquarters in the
summer of 1910 that he would grant
England a peace that must never
in any way violate English prestige
and esteem in the world"
The letter began by noting radio
reports that former collaborators
Of the Fuehrer are at present soil.
ing their own house, are trying tc
deprecate the Fuehrer, falsify his
ideas about England, calumniate
other former collaborators of his
ETC., and compel me to do what j
really wanted to do later on: Plac,
myself at the disposal of the British
commander In chief.
81 shall do it now. If I did moi