Hitler's Plot to Kill the Big Three

294 Pages·1969·64.142 MB·English

by  Laslo Havas

HITLER'S
PLOT
TO
KILL
THE
BIG
THREE

HITLER'S
PLOT
TO
KILL
THE
BIG
THREE
LASLO HAVAS
Translated from the Hungarian by
Kathleen Szasz
Revised edition, with additional material
translatedby Jean Ure
COWLES BOOK COMPANY,
INC,
NEW YORK
Copyright©LasloHavas 1967
LibraryofCongress Catalog #69-19999
Printed simultaneously in Canada by
General Publishing Company, Ltd.,
30 Lesmill Road, Don Mills, Toronto, Ontario
Printedinthe UnitedStates ofAmerica
First Edition
1491816
FOREWORD
The headings of the three parts of the book add up to a so-called
technical hexameter: "Quis, quid, ubi, quibus, auxiliis, cur, quo-
modo, quando?" In rhetoric and criminal investigation it sums up
what we call "circumstances": Who is the criminal? What is the
crime? Where was it committed? By what means? With what ac-
complices? Why? Inwhatway?When?
Apart from a few exceptions, the protagonists are mentioned by
their real names. The exception is made where it would compro-
misethepersonin hispresent situation orjob.
The author expresses his thanks to those who have allowed the
reconstruction of events by telling him about them or putting their
diaries at his disposal: Ida Kovalska, Ernst Merser, Joseph Schna-
bel, Gerhard Fromm, Jakob Kupferstein, Hama Ebtehaj, Otto
Skorzeny, Thomas W. Jackson, Jean-Jacques Béguin, and Paul
Pourbaix.
This book could not have been written without lengthy, exhaust-
ing, and, in certain cases, dangerous research carried on by the
author's collaborators in many parts of the world. The author takes
this opportunity to thank them: Mrs. Anne Havas (Belgium, Swit-
zerland, France); Mrs. C. M. (Soviet Union, East Germany);
Miss Gerda Klaus (West Germany); Mrs. Marianne Widmann
(West Germany); Pierre Brisard (Spain); Raoul Chasel (Iran);
Adam Minossian (Iran); Jose Mendes (Argentina, Chile); James
Morris (United States); Dr. Otto Wolf (Israel).
The author also thanks the Centre de Documentation Con-
temporaine (Paris), the Institut fiir Zeitgeschichte (Munich), and
the staff of the National Archives and Records Service of the Gen-
eral Services Administration, Washington, D.C.

CONTENTS
1 introduction
QUIS, QUID, UBI
. . .
9 January
31 February
49 March
70 April
QUIBUS AUXILIIS, CUR
.
89 May
104 June
119 July
136 August
QUOMODO, QUANDO
. .
153 September
181 October
208 November
241 December
257 Research
267 Bibliography
275 Index