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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 3, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Friday March 3, 1972 Mvi v met Hitler in secret in this the sixth of 11 excerpts from the Book the game of the foxes Admi ral Canaris predicts the Success of the nazi March into the Rhineland. By Ladislas Farago it was March again whose raw air for some reason always filled Hitler with Mer curial agitation. He was seeing Wilhelm Canaris More often than at any time during the Admiral s tenure in the a Wehr. Hitler s appointment Book listed 17 sessions Between december 1935 and March 1936, All of a them private meetings of ahead of just the two behind closed usual camouflaged As a doors. The sudden frequency of their i be ranch a Jar a l dialogues were introduced by a Aust France certain urgent developments in generals Europe that produced consider Able secret fallout behind explosive headlines. Canaris was there to Brief the fuehrer about them. With their Hitler was Adamant. The year 1935, had brought a i a he said. String of phenomenal moves to be sure. On March 7, a plebiscite returned the Saar to Ger-1 Many. On june 18, a naval agreement with England authorized Germany to build up its Skeleton Fleet to one third of the Royal Navy s tonnage. And the old enmity with to buried when Hitler mation that the French a single Poilu. You will see that and More than that action of the Rhineland from the 1 e s Yoke As an a fact and leave it at Canaris now was Able to present to the fuehrer the copy opened. Negotiations with mar of actual order the French Shau Joseph Pilsudski and Star drawn up for the tied the world by signing a. Ii nation of 13 divisions in the treaty of. Friendship. But Hitler emergency. Spies of the Trier m Baa Acle re of Ted that the for May 2 1935, France and the so Tif cations were in the process Viet Union signed of of being Mai used All along the Mutual assistance t was Fol German bord Ith Lowed within a fortnight by the ments moving from. M far signing of a similar pact be away. As Marseilles and Lyons tween the. Soviet to a Czechoslovakia. Hitler s reaction to what he c a 1 1 e d was prompt and violent. On the Lay say. The and the user initiated their tache in particular sounded a Mutual assistance pact he de most pessimistic. His friends in cited to Send the Reichs Wehr the War office he wrote were into the demilitarized zone of strongly admonishing him that the Rhineland and ordered England would definitely Anarch general Werner Yon Blomberg at France s Side if Hitler dared to begin staff Wori on the plan to make As much As a move in Union and to Metz and the other key forts of the line. From London the dispatches of the three service attaches were heavy with forebodings and warnings. The military at for the March. Called sch lung or excer by its code name the plan was quickly drawn up by a staff of handpicked officers sworn to sch lung. Then held i abeyance for Hitler did not dare a Ibold a Pye without the acute provocation that would presumably justify it. Again and again Blomberg conveyed to him the misgivings of his generals the Reichs Wehr was still too weak and ill equipped for the adventure they suspected Hitler was hatching in his mind. Then a series of develop ments induced Hitler to unwrap sch lung. On dec. 26, in the first of their series of briefing sessions Canaris told Hitler that the French and the British military staffs had begun talks to co ordinate plans for an emergency in the Rhineland. On feb. 11, 1936, the French Cabinet placed the still Una tidied treaty with the soviet Union on the Agenda of the As Sembly. On the same Day Admiral Canaris requested an immedi ate audience with the fuehrer. When he saw Hitler again alone at 8 o clock in the Ning he submitted a top secret paper which he said his chief a Man in Paris had just succeeded in procuring. It was a stunning document the verbatim transcript of the secret military clauses of the Franco russian pact. The key clause provided in so Many words for an invasion of Germany in collaboration with the czechs to Short circuit Hitler s policy of aggrandizement. Canaris was barely out of his office when Hitler sent for general von Blomberg and instructed him to prepare the schuling plan for execution. The general direction of the de-1 militarized zone. What in the face of All these i alarming reports made Hitler so sure that he had nothing to fear from the French what in fact was that absolutely Able information he had mentioned to the general that made him so confident at this same time the i fuehrer was receiving other sets of intelligence from Paris j and London. In the flood of reports and Mi-1 r a 1 Canaris was submitting there was one in particular that impressed Hitler. According to the highly placed a Wehr agent who was covering the Quai d orsay in the crisis foreign minister Pierre Flandin has been told by general Maurice Gamelin chief of the army j that he would not be Able or for that matter willing to Send any forces into the Rhineland unless the British were March -1 ing at their at the same time foreign minister Baron von Neurath i was assuring Hitler in no Uncertain terms that the British had no intention to give the French the support Gamelin was demanding. At noon on March 7, even As Hitler was telling the Reich Stag that we have no territorial de mands in the Man expeditionary Force of the Reichs Wehr was entering what the fuehrer railed their future peace garrisons in the Reich s Western it was a saturday the first of Many weekends Hitler was to spoil with his recurrent coups. In France there was a hideous but exactly As Canaris had told Hitler the French Generalissimo would not move an Inch toward the Rhine land without the concurrence of Britain. At this most critical moment of the crisis however Sot 2. Sass. Blomberg was Back on feb. 27, the Day the French Assem Bly ratified the treaty with rus Sia to advise hitter that preliminary preparations had been completed and to receive his marching orders from him with a Day firmly set for March 7, Only a Little Over a week later. Up to this Point san uhme was treated As nothing More than what its name implied a training exercise supposedly designed to give the planning staffs something to do and afford the troops a realistic Drill on March 2 be called in Gener Beck and Fritsch to them that sir Tang was not a i contingency plan after an. I a storm of protest broke Loose. Fritsch remonstrated j that All be bad for such an adventurous operation bras a f Force of 33.000 men of which j the Winnipeg school division Only a single division can fld be i is starting registration for next formed for combat Beckar fall s kindergarten classes. That tace Freab Evoid children a fax via be fire Etc at Kast so dec. Is 1372, Are egg site for per try Divi subs to Kinder fares in. September. Against Fritsc jts bi8e Expedy Are asked to of toward Force jux Pat it avast Regis Fratton St of West at tie rarest Swise gement from London. On Mon Day Eden rushed to Paris but Only to counsel his French friends to place the Issue before the league of nations instead of precipitating action. Next first shots fired in War. Copyright c 1971 by la Dilts Fango. And rights re served. From the Book the game of the foxes published by David Mckay company inc re printed by Traag emits with the Pahis Feer. Distributed a Canada by Massai company. 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