HITLER: Do you think the English are enthusiastic about all the Russian developments? GOERING: They certainly didn’t plan that we hold them off while the Russians conquer all of Germany… They had not counted on our… holding them off like madmen while the Russians drive deeper and deeper into Germany, and practically have all of Germany now… JODL: They have always regarded the Russians with suspicion. GOERING: If this goes on we will get a telegram [from the English] in a few days.16 On such a slender thread the leaders of the Third Reich began to pin their last hopes.
