and now Himmler for letting him down. He laid the blame for the rout in Pomerania directly on Himmler. In the course of a diatribe against him on 11 March, he told Goebbels that Himmler had fallen prey to the Army General Staff from the beginning of his command. Goebbels entered in his diary: ‘The Führer accuses him [Himmler] of flat disobedience and intends to give him a piece of his mind on the next available occasion and make clear that in the event of a repetition of such an instance an irreparable breach would occur between him and Himmler .…’
