Efter en god middag på Hell´s Kitchen tror jag nog att jag orkar med ett par inlägg till för att visa att
Jorden är rund. Mättnadskänslan kan toppas med lite dessert.
No. 204 of August 23
Please advise the Führer at once that the first three-hour conference with Stalin and Molotov has just ended. At the discussion- which, moreover, proceeded affirmatively in our sense-it transpired that the decisive point for the final result is the demand of the Russians that we recognize the ports of Libau and Windau as within their sphere of influence. I would be grateful for confirmation before 8 o'clock German time that the Führer is in agreement, The signing of a secret protocol on delimitation of mutual spheres of influence in the whole eastern area is contemplated, for which I declared myself ready in principle.
RIBBENTROP
Här omnämns ju det hemliga tilläggsprotokollet i klartext.
Very Urgent! Exclusively for Ambassador. Strictly secret! For Chief of Mission or his representative personally. Top secret. To be decoded by himself. Strictest secrecy!
We definitely expect to have beaten the Polish Army decisively in a few weeks. We would then keep the area that was established as German sphere of interest at Moscow under military occupation. We would naturally, however, for military reasons, also have to proceed further against such Polish military forces as are at that time located in the Polish area belonging to the Russian sphere of interest.
Please discuss this at once with Molotov and see if the Soviet Union does not consider it desirable for Russian forces to move at the proper time against Polish forces in the Russian sphere of interest and, for their part, to occupy this territory. In our estimation this would be not only a relief for us, but also, in the sense of the Moscow agreements, in the Soviet interest as well.
In this connection please determine whether we may discuss this matter with the officers who have just arrived here and what the Soviet Government intends their position to be.
RIBBENTROP
Moskvaarrangemangen? Vilka åsyftas? Inte icke-angreppspakten i alla fall för i den fanns det inga överenskommelser av den arten.
No. 442 of September 25
Stalin and Molotov asked me to come to the Kremlin at 8 p. m. today. Stalin stated the following: In the final settlement of the Polish question anything that in the future might create friction between Germany and the Soviet Union must be avoided. From this point of view, he considered it wrong to leave an independent Polish rump state. He proposed the following: From the territory to the east of the demarcation line, all the Province of Lublin and that portion of the Province of Warsaw which extends to the Bug should be added to our share. In return, we should waive our claim to Lithuania.
Stalin designated this suggestion as a subject for the forthcoming negotiations with the Reich Foreign Minister and added that, if we consented, the Soviet Union would immediately take up the solution of the problem of the Baltic countries in accordance with the Protocol of August 23, and expected in this matter the unstinting support of the German Government. Stalin expressly indicated Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, but did not mention Finland.
I replied to Stalin that I would report to my Government.
SCHULENBURG
Vilket protokoll hänvisar Schulenburg till? Inte är det icke-angreppspakten i alla fall. Den avhandlar ju inte baltländerna.
Således, vad Molotov har sagt eller inte har ingen betydelse i det stora sammanhanget. Existensen av något slags "protokoll" bekräftas i andra källor, som ovannämnda depescher.
Allt är hämtat från:
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/nazsov.asp