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part in the events of those days: Schönhausen,
one hundred and twenty-five miles east of Berlin.
It was on this family estate that the Iron
Chancellor was born and brought up, and there, no
doubt, he absorbed the Junker ideals to which
he remained faithful throughout his life. Now
the Swedish Legation had been installed at
Schönhausen, and during my work in Berlin we
motored to the capital from the old manor almost
every morning. These drives gave one a pretty
clear picture of conditions in Germany two
months before capitulation. All main roads were
barricaded, and one could see men of the
Volkssturm as well as prisoners of war working on the
barricades. All cars and, for that matter, all
travelers on the roads were subjected to the most
careful control. I had, however, been provided by
the Ministry of Police with a pass that enabled
me to proceed unhindered.
On my first drive from Schönhausen to Berlin
I saw for the first time women prisoners from
concentration camps. There were hundreds of
them—foreign women as well as Germans
suspected of having worked against the Nazi regime
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