= NS ee ee ee _ BY SAM RUSSELL MOscow liste = Details “of & wait, bk ch attempt by Goeb- Viets eg a deal with the Wit ha n the last days of the here ve just been published The Btemer ® Was rejected with mea by the Soviets who lings ttelY Saw it as an at- ‘leg 0 split the wartime Th ite ocuments now published tat minute-by-minute ver- L Fount of the last 48 i the the war in Berlin \ fadquarters of Soviet hig Chuikov — now ee “2! Of the Soviet Union 0 Ff; * Stalin fought his way from th, Fad to the heart of Ber- It | a at 2:30 a.m. on May ly ;) When General Chui- Mt “adquarters was alert- Moraga eect the arrival of May natives of the Ger- At i High Command. Misery, 2. General Krebs, thog . himsel as the new hin Staff of the German tha] C Srces, entered Gen- Mined OV’s room and an- Mitte : that Hitler had com- Minus ance at 3:50 p.m. the hay "eading Hitler’s will, Big tt On to read a let- Sites Goebbels stating that Ver, ‘d transferred all his Doenity "9 Goebbels. Admiral “y nd Martin Bormann. ae se authorized by "id? Goebbels’ letter fhe | » €stablish contact with Up iy = 0f-the Soviet peo- i : tp Aa Contact js necessary re : Negotiations between : Ereatecs penich suffered re 40sses.” Many 3 Claimed that con- ric Itler’s will, Gestapo acltain mMmler had contacted ittinn the U.S., and that ME wan, coebbels and his "thea a to ensure in ad- lot Uni ORnition by the Sov- Ke te of a new German in eormed by Goeb- : : as tin for a temporary vtihited fecile negotiations Vint Hi; etween him and the Eikoy Command. Oheg the Immediately tele- ies : ‘ “hies, Soviet commander- tote 4 ‘ on the phone 0, ‘tions uta number of tnkoy, to Krebs through at d this is how the ik, went; ad on the phone to a Doth; eee? No, he still hi Eo that. I'll *Nks, Likoy “aig Is turns to Krebs and th = Nations question one of Here Col. General Gustav Jodl, Nazi chief of staff, is shown Soebbels’ offer revealed by Soviet publication -of diary signing the capitulation that ended the Second World War in Europe. With him are Major General Oxenius (left) and Admiral H. G. Friedeburg (right). Krebs: No, there are other possibilities. Chuikoyv to Zhukoy: He says there are other ways of. ob- taining peace. After further conversation on the phone, Chuikov turned to Krebs and stated: “We can carry on negotiations with you only in the event of com- plete and unconditional .sur- render to the USSR,. the WS, and Britain ...-the question of an armistice can be decided only on the basis of complete capitulation.” Krebs: But we think that the USSR will reckon with the new legal German govern- ment and that will. be ad- vantageous and convenient for both parties. Chuikov: My proposal is clear, I. am waiting for com- plete surrender. The conversation was inter- rupted by Chuikov taking further phone calls from his unit commanders telling of the Germans surrendering in increasing numbers. The con- versations were accompanied by the increasing roar of Sov- iet artillery. At this point Chuikov read to Krebs an. account of Him- mler’s attempt to open up separate negotiations with the West and their rejection. Still Krebs did not give up and added; “It seems to me that Himmler’s negotiations with the allies have gone rather far.” Chuikov: No. The actions of the U.S, and British govern- ments were agreed with us. Himmler’s was an unsuccess- ful attempt at diplomatic blackmail. Krebs: Are you interested in the creation of a new. Ger- man government? Chuikov: What are you hoping to get? The most popu- lar thing will be a govern- ment that agrees to complete surrender. Krebs: Our task is to pre- serve the government and to conclude peace, particularly with the victor power, the USSR. Chuikov: Don’t you under- stand that we and: our allies demand complete: surrender? At 10:15 a.m., after a night and morning of six hours-con- tinuous. argument. Zhukov rang up and Chuikov gave the Soviet government’s final re- ply,.— either complete sur- ‘render and the capitulation of Berlin or Soviet artillery would begin its final massive May Day barrage. Krebs said he had no such authority — and the Soviet attack began. A day and night of bitter fighting followed. At 6 am. on May 2 a Ger- man delegation of three civil- ians and one officer under a white flag arrived. é By 7:57 a.m. General Weidl- ing, commander of the Berlin garrison, was shown in. He wrote out the surrender order to his troops, and the Battle of Berlin was over. This is the entrance to the bunker in: Berlin in which Hitler committed suicide. REPORT TO UN Intervention not proven The Lebanese government’s “Arab intervention” claim collapsed utterly and finally last week — in the Tale of the Two “Terrorists,” pinpointed by the UN expert observers. The two “terrorists” were the Chamoun government’s sole evidence of “‘massive intervention” by the United Arab Re- public. The UN observers’ report said that one of the men was an illiterate Syrian army de- serter of 21, the other his 17- year - old friend. From their “eonflicting evidence” it was ‘not possible to draw any firm conclusions.” Stressing that these two were their sole material evi- dence of the presence of any Syrians, the observers’ report —submitted to the UN on Fri- day last week by Secretary- General Hammarskjoeld—de- clared: ‘In’ the circumstances, the group must conclude that the complicity of these two. per- sons in terrorist activities. or their participation in acts of Memorial at Buchenwald BERLIN — The former Nazi concentration camp of Buch- enwald, near Weimar, on September 14 will be officially proclaimed a memorial to the thousands of anti-fascists mur- dered. there. This was announced at a meeting in East Berlin of representatives of Resistance Fighters from ten countries— Austria, Belgium, France, Hol- land, Norway, Italy, Germ- any, Poland, the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia. East German President Otto Grotewohl told the gathering that September 14 should not merely be a day of remem- brance, but also one of warn- ing. A pledge must be taken not to cease the struggle until every sign of fascism had been wiped out in every coun- try, he -said. Buchenwald has been pre- served as a memorial since the end of the war. Every year “on April 11 tens of thousands cf anti-fascists gather there on the anniversary of libera- tion day to honor the memory cf its 56.000 victims. This in sharp centrast to what has happened on the site of the former concentration camp of Dachau in southern Germany, which is now being used as a form of residential quarters, July 11, 1958 — rebellion as members of an organized foreign terrorist group has not been established beyond reasonable doubt. Reporting its careful exami- nation of daily reports from its patrols and its visits to all fighting areas, the observers’ group concluded that “the vast majority” of the armed men involved in the fighting “was in any case composed of Leb- anese.” Land mines seen near Baal- bek, in ‘an area not held by the cpposition, were of Brit- ish and French makes. On infiitration of armed men across the border, the ob- servers note the traditional freedom of movement in these areas cf traditionally armed people, adding: “Habits of mutual assistance in. peaceful as well as in troubled times have been re- garded as a normal expression of tribal solidarity.” In the Bekaa area observ- ers saw about one company of uniformed Syrian soldiers: but this was .an area ‘where the location of the-border is under dispute and is not known to the local inhabitants,” though the area was “generally con- sidered Syrian.” An angry Lebanese govern- ment met immediately to dis- cuss what to do about the re- port. The main reaction was one of indignation that the UN had failed to find interven- tion. Sources near the govern- ment predicted that now an official demand to the Secur- ity Council would be made for an international police force to seal off the frontier with Syria. UN circles also noted that the observers’ report implied a total rebuff to-.the pro- Chamoun policy of the Brit- ish and U.S. governments and their huge mobilization of forces for intervention on Chamoun’s side. The concentration of the 80 warships of the U.S. 6th fleet, the flying in of British and U.S. arms and tanks to Beirut, the dispatch of paratrocps to Cyprus — ready. to inter- vene in Lebanon “at two hours nctice” — are the massive reality against massive myth of Arab “intervention.” PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 3