I saw Colonel Schellenberg twice and he confirmed everything that Dr. Kersten had been 
 
telling me. He also pressed me to come to Germany to talk with Himmler.  I told him that I was 
 
by no means certain that there would be any point in my coming even at a later date, and that I 
 
might have trouble getting out of Stockholm due to the very tight priority situation on the British 
 
planes. He at once offered to put me out through Lisbon, giving me safe conduct through 
 
Germany and France. He suggested that, when I come back to Europe, I come back to Lisbon, as 
 
the Gestapo organization was very good there and was, in his opinion, very poor in Stockholm. 
 
He gave me the names of 2 of his men in Lisbon, Schroeder and Breisky, to get in touch with 
 
them. He said that they would have a German passport ready for me.
 
     The doctor reported that Prince Wied, the German Minister to Stockholm, had come with 
 
a peace proposal from the Russians to SS Headquarters about the time of Stalingrand, and that 
 
von Papen had come with another one from Ankara in May 1943. The outlines of the proposals 
 
were that Germany should take about one-half the Baltic