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Telegram of the plenipotentiary representative the USSR in Germany A. Shkvartsev to the peopleʹs commissar for foreign affairs of the USSR v. M. Molotov

September 6, 1939 immediately. Top secret

On September 6 he received Weizsacker. Weizsacker asked about the position of Turkey and Romania in relation to Germany. I replied that I had not yet visited the Turkish ambassador and therefore could not tell him anything new. And he asked if he had information on this matter. Weizsacker told me that he had no information about Turkeyʹs position. With regard to Romania, he considers the nervousness shown by it about the danger of an attack by Hungary, unjustified, since this danger is not so real. In the west, Germany has not yet fired a single shot, the flight of British aircraft ended unsuccessfully. On the eastern front, there is an offensive, allegedly the polish government was evacuated from Warsaw. When I asked about the possibility of an air attack on berlin, Weizsacker replied that there were no real signals for this. Berlin is an unattractive target for enemy aircraft, as berlin is well defended and there are no people giving orders in berlin. At the end of the conversation, he pointed out that Germany is thinking about expanding our economic relations with her, which will probably be discussed in Moscow. The existing trade and credit agreement171 will be respected by Germany exactly in spite of the war.

Plenipotentiary

Avp rf, f. 059, on. 1, p. 294, d 2037, l. 24‐25.