in the archives that Göring had either legal or military qualms
about the campaign.
Göring demanded several consecutive days of perfect fly-
ing weather. For three or four more days, waiting for that
weather, Hitler postponed zero hour, and the Forschungsamt
wiretappers could hear the bafflement and confusion that the
repeated delays engendered among the still-unidentified traitors
in Berlin. On May , a voice calling from Luxembourg was
heard to ask Berlin, “Are they coming or aren’t they?” In Hol-
land, all leave was canceled, telephone links cut, and guards of
strategic bridges doubled. On May , the FA intercepted a sinis-
ter telegram from the Belgian envoy at the Vatican reporting
that an unnamed German traitor had arrived from Berlin on
April and informed the “scoundrels in the Vatican” (as
Göring always termed them) of Hitler’s latest .Yellow deadline.
Hitler and Göring were on hot coals. They were losing the
element of surprise. On May , the weather was still too uncer-
tain to begin.