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Mr. Niels Christian Ditleff, a man of sixty who
had served his country in many important posts
and was at this time attached to the Norwegian
Legation in Stockholm. It was he who suggested
to me that the most important achievement in
sight would be to persuade the Nazi authorities
to let Norwegian civilians be released from the
camps in Germany and evacuated to Sweden. The
idea appealed to me greatly, for it was very similar
to what Consul General Nordling was doing,
though perhaps on a larger scale. Mr. Ditleff and
I went deeply into the question, and we arrived
at the conclusion that to be successful it would be
necessary to get access to the head of the SS,
Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler. In such
matters final decision rested with him. A somewhat
encouraging factor was that he was known to have
expressed a liking for the Scandinavian countries
and their peoples. There was perhaps a faint hope
that he might give his approval.
The next move was to confer with the Swedish
Red Cross and with the Swedish Government. I
knew that the latter had long been trying to do
something for the Scandinavians imprisoned in
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