And Lohse answered:
“ ‘I won’t stand for that; I have never written poetry.’ ”
In conclusion I quote the last three quotations from Göring’s speech. He said:
“ ‘We must have buyers from the Ministry of Economics, Funk, in the Ukraine and elsewhere. We must send them to Venice to buy odds and ends, those frightful alabaster things and cheap jewelry, et cetera. I don’t think there is any other place except Italy where one gets quite such junk.
“ ‘Now let us see what Russia can deliver. I think, Riecke, we should be able to get 2 million tons of cereals and fodder out of the whole of Russia.’
“Riecke: ‘That can be done.’
“Reich Marshal Göring: ‘That means that we must get 3 million, apart from Wehrmacht supplies.’
“Riecke: ‘No, all that is in the front areas goes for the Wehrmacht only.’
“Reich Marshal Göring: ‘Then we bring 2 million.’
“Riecke: ‘No.’