That night Bormann and Goebbels had a fresh idea. They decided to try to negotiate with the Russians. General [Hans] Krebs, the Chief of the Army General Staff...had once been the assistant military attache in Moscow, spoke Russian, and [once] had even been embraced by Stalin at the Moscow railway station. Perhaps he could get something out of the Bolsheviks...
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General Krebs set out shortly after midnight of April 30-May 1 to see General Chuikov, the Soviet commander of the troops fighting in Berlin...
KREBS: Today is the First of May, a great holiday for our two nations.*
Out loud laugh.
*Shirer, Rise and Fall, p. 1135.
