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Warning Britain about

Barbarossa

Throughout the spring of  Hitler’s planned conquest of
eastern territories cast its nightmarish shadow over his principal
lieutenant. Along every ministerial corridor in Berlin could be
heard the echo as Barbarossa approached with ponderous tread,
and none dared stand up to the Führer long enough to talk him
and his eager army out of it. The coming operation intruded on
Hermann Göring’s contentment as he cruised the galleries of
Amsterdam, as he unpacked the crates of artworks at Carinhall,
and as he briefed his agents to scout the treasure-filled bazaars of
Switzerland and Italy, of France and the Low Countries, for
anything that he might have missed himself. But for Hitler’s
Barbarossa plan, Göring would have had few cares: His air force
was operating with merciless precision against its English targets;
his own wife and infant daughter were safe at Rominten in East