The ‘hour of truth’ had come. Firstly, however, there was a last midday meal to be taken together. Hitler delivered a monologue about the future. The immediate postwar world would not have a good word to say for him, he said: the enemy would savour its triumph, and the German people would face very difficult times. Even we, his intimate circle, would soon experience things that we could not imagine. But he trusted to ‘the later histories’ to ‘treat him justly’. They would recognise that he had only wanted the very best for Germany. Not until after my release from captivity did I understand
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