“For our former harmonious co-operation has for a long time been a thorn in the flesh of various persons who would like to play us off one against the other.”
That is the last paragraph but one of your letter, right at the end of it.
LAMMERS: Where is the place?
MAJOR JONES: The last paragraph but one of your letter, the last sentence but three.
LAMMERS: The sentence before the last?
MAJOR JONES: The one before.
LAMMERS: “In conclusion I would like to say,” is that the paragraph you mean?
MAJOR JONES: The sentence before that, “For our former harmonious co-operation...”
LAMMERS: Yes, but I would like to add that at the end I repeated my wish for our cordial personal relations and I repeat that it was a New Year’s letter and when I write to some one wishing him luck for the New Year, I cannot write that things went badly the year before; so in order to maintain cordial relations I say that everything went well.
MAJOR JONES: You were not seeking to shift responsibility in this matter to Bormann. You were the link between the occupied territories and Hitler.