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Hague where he remained except for trips to Italy where he treated Mussolini, Ciano and other 
 
high Italian government officials, and also members and officials of the Rumanian court and 
 
government.
 
                   In 1938, he had treated Himmler with great success. The result was that, when the 
 
Germans overran Holland in 194O, the Gestapo notified him that they would not be responsible 
 
for the safety of his family or mhimself unless he moved to Berlin. This he did in 1941. He showed 
 
me a Gestapo paper requiring him to move. His purpose in showing this paper probably was to try 
 
to persuade me that his removal to Berlin was not voluntary.
 
                   Hebecame "Leibarzt" to Himmler and was retained by the SS organization to treat 21 
 
of their officials each year. This required him to spend a great deal of his time at SS Headquarters. 
 
His contract provided for a salary of 60,000 marks a year, and he was given six times the normal 
 
gasoline ration for doctors.
 
                   He explained his presence in Sweden by saying that Alva Moller had come to him and 
 
had offered him  l00,000 Swedish kroner if'he could succeed in persuading