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Curt Riess 1944



Introduction
AT THE end of August 1943 Dr. Alexander Loudon, Netherlands Ambassador to Washington, made a most interesting forecast about the outcome and aftermath of the war. He predicted that, with defeat, the German General Staff, the Nazi leaders, and in particular the Gestapo, would go underground to prepare for the next war. As for this war, he said, the Nazis knew that they had already lost it, and were willing and eager to get it over with. The Ambassador was the first person to suggest such a development. But in the months since he uttered his somewhat startling prophecy similar hints have appeared with increasing frequency in English, Swiss, and Swedish newspapers. Toward the end of October 1943, for instance, the Swedish daily, Nydag, reported that a vast organization all over Germany was preparing to go underground when Germany is defeated; that the “General Staff” of this “illegal Nazi party” had been established in Munich; that secret radio stations, a clandestine press, and secret arsenals of arms, ammunition, explosives, and sabotage material were being prepared; that wholesale sabotage was to start in Germany in case of an Allied occupation after defeat; that SS men were being selected and trained as guerrillas.