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countries to the north of East Prussia; that Poland should be divided according to the 1939 lines;
that Russia should demand the whole coast to the Black Sea, including the mouth of the Danube,
and should go as far as Constantinople and Salonfka, and should also have a port on the Adriatic.
Ribbentrop and Goebbels had been in favor of accepting these proposals, while Himmler and
Hitler were against them.
The Germens calculated that, if the Russians continued an all-out offensive, which
they have in fact done, their reserves would be exhausted towards the end of April 1944, and that
the Eastern Front might develop into a stale-mate in the summer of 1944.
The doctor also reported that British and American bombing of Germany was
resulting in a very large increase in communism, as when people have their homes destroyed, as
well as all their personal property, they are automatically thrown upon the state to provide them
with everything they need.
Himmler's policy was that he intended to keep order in Germany under the existing
government as long as