Töpperwien finally acknowledged that Hitler’s ‘terrible miscalculation’ – underlined in red in his diary – was ‘to make war against the Anglo-Americans when his real enemy is Bolshevism!?!’ In his despair at Germany’s impending defeat, the Gymnasium teacher returned once more to his belief that ‘A mankind who wages war like this has become godless. The Russian barbarities in the German east – the terror attacks of the Anglo-Americans – our struggle against the Jews (sterilisation of healthy women, shooting everyone from infants to old women, gassing of Jewish transport trains)!’37
