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w You ¥Viegnad advieed that early in the war he hed been told that upon ite conquest of France, the Gerann Oovernsent vould « "literally dismember her“. However, just before his recent return to the United States he learned that Hitler's idea now is a complete restoration of france to a competent government, except possibly the territory of Aleace-Lorraine, and “even then he night consider a plebiscite’. Yon Wiegand declarod this information is checked By the fact that Hitler preoluded Mussolini from moving iato and teking any part of France even after the French troops haf retired. He advised that there was a non-military corridor eetablished which indicates in his mind that Hitler did not want to dicmemder France at the present tine, . ire epaune af hawta ® competent government in France which will prevent revolution which fle one of the things Hitler fears most, because then they crn have a0 control over their conquered arens. He sided that Hitler has a fear of driving the British Government to Canada, If that vere true, . - they would have no Saglish Government to deal with ia Great Britain, and it mlght cause a merger of the British Repire vith the United “tates. & Questioned ae te the baeia far Hitler's anareae af far, =e eleva = Se Severe FSF SSSeres FS = Von “legnnd etated that ninety per cent of it was due to the . British ani French policies vhich developed the situntions that made Hitler possible and that he exploited it. Yon Wiegant advised that Communism has “growa very strong*} that the Germans needed police and nrme in order to meet this Conwanistic threat tut that they were turned down repeatedly by the French and English. Ee recalled that Hitler osme into power legally (granted that it wae by trickery, out it was ao different in his mind than sore of the deale pulled by some of our ovn politicians). - -° tk. Then with the personality that Hitler hes, the situation having been o created, he exploited 4¢ to his personel advantage. a tiecuseion followec ooncerniag the strength of the Serman — arned forces. In this connection, Yon Wiegand stated the Cermans have a strong army. He advieed that there are eighteen sillion men © from eighteen to fifty years of age, and the “losses havo been unbelievably light*. He advised that he talked to people in Belgium ~ af . . 4 . —_ . hat . - . + . at ~ ee > i Oa ‘ - *. . ‘ : ~ - < ~~ ew wh HS ny eo. - a ; . ee ; “Me oe + . " . a erp gee me