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most influential Nazis under the influence of liquor had given
details about the plans against Holland. There was an enormous
concentration of food stores and ammunition along the Dutch
frontier since 15th January. For about three weeks there were
several special mechanised divisions staying along the Dutch border.
Personally I have come to the conclusion that all these preparation
were intended partly to hide the attack against Czechoslovakia and
partly to be ready for a future situation. When the news reached
me of the intended attack against Prague during the first week
after I returned from the United States I found everybody here in 
a very optimistic mood in spite of the fact that the same people
as I heard afterwards, whom I mentioned in my expose given to you
personally in January, had been in London and had warned the
British Government of the coming events. But the British military 
attache at a dinner party on the eve of the march into Bohemia
said to his German guests that he was now satisfied that the
threatening action against Bohemia had been cancelled.
 
 
I have come to the conclusion not to listen too much to
all these informations which I was given and rather, as I have 
done formerly, to construct coming events in assuming that Hitler
would make his next move where from the general political and
military point of view it would be the best for him. Of course
in doing so I cannot exclude the possibility of his wavering
between his final ambition of showing once his military genius
in a big decisive battle, and his fear of losing everything if
 
 
war