HITLER’S MARCS INTO SUDETENLAND

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24911, 26 June 1946, Page 5

HITLER’S MARCS INTO SUDETENLAND

EVIDENCE GIVEN BY VON NEURATH

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) NUREMBERG, June 24.

Denying before;the War Crimes Tribunal that he was ever a member of Hitler’s inner circle, von Neurath, a former German Foreign Minister, said that difficulties arose through von Ribbentrop’s increasing influence. It became more difficult to dissuade Hitler from adopting von Ribbentrop’s suggestions. . Von Neurath said that when he heard that Hitler was preparing to march into the Sudetenland, he raced to Berlin and warned him of the consequences of this terrible step. He knew at the time that Mr Chamberlain was willing to fly to Germany and was also willing to turn over the Sudetenland to Germany if that was the price of peace. • . Lord Justice Lawrence: How aiayou know? . , Von Neurath: The British Ambassador told me. , „ Von Neurath added that Mr Chamberlain asked him to arrange a private interview with Hitler without the P re " sence of von Ribbentrop, who had been present at the first interview at Godesberg. “The result of the talk was an Anglo-German tentative agreement. to which France later adhered, he said.