Dulles-Hohenlohe Meetings event
also: meet Dulles in Bern, talks, negotiations
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▶ 17:38
Everyone breathed easier. At last, a man had been found with whom it was possible to discuss a complex series of problems emerging from what the Germans referred to as Hitler's war. During the winter of 1942, the SS sent German socialite an…
▶ 18:06
His last name is spelled H-O-H-E-N-L-O-H-E, to meet Dulles in Bern and fill out the possibilities for a U.S.-German rapprochement. Dulles and von Hohenlohe had known one another for almost 20 years, and their reunion in Switzerland was cong…
▶ 18:36
He told his contact that he was fed up with listening all the time to outdated politicians, immigrants, and prejudiced Jewish people. That was according to a report that was found in the U.S. archives. Germany would inevitably become a fact…
▶ 19:04
and should be permitted to keep Austria and several other territories that Hitler had already claimed. Dulles did not seem too attached to the Czechoslovakian question. The notes continued. He favored enlargement of Poland eastward into the…
▶ 19:31
He regarded a greater Germany federated on American lines and allied to a Danube Confederation as the best guardian for reconstruction of Central and Eastern Europe. Dulles told the SS envoy that, quote, due to the inflamed state of public …
▶ 20:03
but it might be willing to negotiate with a National Socialist Germany led by another powerful Nazi, such as Himmler. In a second, unquote, in a second meeting, Dulles advised his contact that the SS should act more skillfully on the Jewish…
▶ 20:33
there would be no war crimes trials for Nazis, obviously with Himmler as head of state. So this is Dulles. And keep in mind, the State Department under John Foster Dulles isn't interested in having any type of a Nuremberg at all. They want …
▶ 20:56
And he's suggesting that someone like Himmler be in charge of Germany to ensure that none of the Nazis actually are tried. The interesting question is whether Dulles' comments were in fact an initiative towards a separate peace or a psychol…
▶ 21:24
is that Dulles was accompanied in his talks by Edmund Taylor, one of the OSS's most prominent anti-Soviet psychological warfare specialists. Taylor made aggressive pro-Nazi and anti-Semitism comments during the talks in an apparent bid to s…
▶ 21:54
is that each side was attempting to deceive the other while at the same time leaving the door open for something. Both envoys sought approval from their superiors for what would otherwise be treasonous contacts with the enemy by describing …
▶ 22:24
They wanted the negotiations for a separate peace to be carried out through to its completion, leading to Germany's concession in exchange for peace with the West in a free hand to continue fighting the Soviets. Recently opened OSS archives…
▶ 22:52
His contact was reporting to the SS that the initiative came from Dulles. On the SS side, the OSS cables show that Dulles lobbied on Hohenlohe's behalf, ensuring that the proposal would be considered directly by the president and continued …
▶ 23:21
His secret correspondence back to Washington makes it appear to be less than a psychological operation because there wouldn't be any need to document the covert operations that he was having without actually communicating, because these wer…
▶ 23:49
While Dulles was not blind to the possibility of using the negotiations simply as a way of sowing dissension, all of the available telegrams indicate that he saw this as a realistic and desirable basis for a U.S. strategy in Europe. On the …
▶ 24:18
Each indicated that the proposal was seriously considered by Himmler himself. Himmler was tempted by all accounts, but at the end failed to muster the courage to overthrow Hitler. Exactly what Stalin knew of Dulles' talks will remain unknow…
▶ 25:45
clandestine contact with the Nazis at Stockholm. Taken as a whole, it seems likely that the Soviet Union had an opportunity to pick up rumors and perhaps solid intelligence that all of this was going on. The fact that Dulles and the SS went…
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If all that Dulles and the OSS had desired was a psychological ploy to disrupt Nazi unity, then why not inform the Soviet Union that you are up to doing that? And in doing so, avoid any risk of damaging the ally coalition. The OSS and the S…