tions in the minds of intelligent observers. Wallenberg's statement was made in vague terms of this 
 
sort. I took it to mean that there wassome question as to Himmler's intention, eventually to oust 
 
Hitler and to take over the government himself.
 
                          Shortly after this conversation, Himmler was appointed Minister of the Interior, 
 
continuing to hold his other pos0ts as Chief of the Gestapo and Chief of the SS.  After about three 
 
months had gone by, I called Wallenberg's attention to the fact that nothing more had been heard 
 
of his proposal that I should meet with representatives of the cells organizing inGermany to 
 
overthrow Hitler. I asked if this meant that, following his appointment as Minister of the Interior, 
 
Himmler had succeeded in liquidating all of these cells, and that there was no longer in Germany 
 
any underground movement or group of cells worth talking about. Wallenberg confirmed that this 
 
was true, saying that, so far as he knew, there was no longer any organized resistance to the Nazis 
 
in Germany.
 
     He gave it as his opinion that the only alterna-