Telegram Marinenachrichtendienst dated 26 April 1945 at 18.20, Geheim noted in red and addressed by Bormann to Backe, Rieke, Klopfer. Telegramme Marinenachrichtendienst du 26 avril 1945.

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Telegramme Marinenachrichtendienst en date du 26 avril 1945 a 18.20, note en rouge geheim et adresse par Bormann a Backe, Rieke, Klopfer. Notre situation doit et sera eclaircie. Le Fuhrer a reporte a une semaine la decision au sujet de votre demande d’hier. Ainsi, on verra mieux l’ensemble de la situation. Prevenez les interesses. Reichsleiter Bormann. Format 21x15cm. Coins colles au scotch sur une feuille de carton vert. Legeres salissures, petites pliures et traces de brûlures. Traduction originale manuscrite du capitaine Leroy en français jointe. Ce texte reste assez mysterieux. S’agirait-il d’une des nombreuses supplications qui ont ete faites a Hitler de quitter Berlin ? a moins qu’il ne s’agisse d’une decision politique ou gouvernementale. Ces documents ont ete recuperes par le capitaine Michel Leroy dans le bunker d’Hitler a Berlin ou il etait entre en fraude en novembre 1945. Ces archives se trouvaient sur la table du bureau personnel de Martin Bormann. L’histoire de leur decouverte a donne lieu a un documentaire sur la chaine RMC en 2019 intitule Fuhrerbunker, les dernieres archives et la publication d’un livre, traduit en trois langues Les dernieres archives du Bunker par Paul Villatoux et Xavier Aiolfi aux editions Memorabilia. Telegram Marinenachrichtendienst dated 26 April 1945 at 18.20, Geheim noted in red and addressed by Bormann to Backe, Rieke, Klopfer. Our situation must and will be clarified. The Fuhrer postponed the decision, on your request yesterday, by one week. So we can see the whole situation better. Inform interested parties. Reichsleiter Bormann. Is this Herbert Backe? Born 1st May 1896, he was a German politician, secretary of state for agriculture from 1933 to 1942, the minister of food from 1942 until the dissolution of the Flensburg government on the 23rd May 1945. He is considered as one of the creators of the Famine plan. Captured by the allies at the end of the war he hanged himself in his cell at Nuremberg on 6th April 1947. In the last days of the conflict, in early spring 1945, he tried to deal with urgent matters and to supply Berlin in order to avoid a food crisis in the capital of the Reich while planning an emergency programme for the production of agricultural equipment. Already cited in the previous telegram. He was at Obersalzberg. Format 21 x 15 cm. Corners sellotaped on a sheet of green card. Slight staining, light creasing and strong traces of burning. Original handwritten translation in French by Captain Leroy attached. This text remains a mystery. Could it be one of the many pleas made to Hitler to leave Berlin? Or it could be a political or governmental decision.These documents were salvaged by Captain Michel Leroy from Hitler’s bunker in Berlin, where he had secretly entered in November 1945. These archives were found on Martin Bormann’s personal desk. The story of their discovery was the subject of a documentary on the RMC channel in 2019 entitled Fuhrerbunker, the Final Archives and also the subject of a book The Final Archives of the Fuhrerbunker by Paul Villatoux and Xavier Aiolfi published by Memorabilia and which has been translated into three languages. Etat II+.