Hitler's telegram for General Grandes was put up for auction in Spain for 3000 pounds Hitler wrote to General Muñoz Grandes, the Spanish commander, the commander of the Blue Division that fought against the USSR on the Soviet-German front. This is reported by the Daily Mail.
Hitler sent a telegram on January 2, 1942, a few days before the defeat of the Nazis in the Battle of Moscow.
Thank you for your congratulations at the beginning of the year. I am sure that the fight against our enemies will continue as successfully as before, and that the final victory will be ours trotz allem, which can be translated from German as “in spite of everything.” Richard Davy, a specialist at an auction house in Malaga, Spain, in a conversation with the Daily Mail called this Hitler's first “grain of doubt” about his victory in World War II.
“We often think of Hitler as a strong man who did not think about defeat, but here for the first time he seems to have a grain of doubt about winning the war. There is something in these words that makes the statement less confident and less powerful than originally intended. As if he is worried that the battle might be lost, “Davy said.
General Muñoz, in response to the telegram, wished Hitler victory. “The difficulties of the present moment can only confirm my confidence in the final victory, and my only desire is that the relations between our two countries can become even deeper and closer, even if it comes at the cost of heavy sacrifices,” wrote the Spanish military leader.
The telegrams are expected to be sold at an online auction on Friday, December 3, for three thousand pounds sterling (about 300 thousand rubles).
The battle for Moscow is one of the turning points in World War II – began in September 1941. In December, the Red Army launched a counteroffensive and threw the Germans back hundreds of kilometers from the capital.