Frederick Voigt to W. P. Crozier.
Location: Berlin.
He refers to being the cause of a misunderstanding on Friday night. He received an account of a Nazi plot to kidnap the Chancellor, but as he could not verify it, he did not send it. Ullstein's rang the London office as they believed that there was going to be a 'sensational revelation'. On Friday evening he attended a political meeting in a Nazi stronghold; he had been reported as having been beaten up by the Nazis, as he manifested various wounds, in reality sustained by an accident en route. The police think that the Nazi plot story is a fabrication by the Nazis, intended to discredit him and his Brunswick story. It is true that the chancellor was warned on Sunday 13 March by two Nazi leaders that an attempt was to be made against him; the Nazis were going to cut Berlin off if Hitler failed to achieve more votes than Hindenburg; he gives further details; they would have called for the Brüning and Braun governments to resign, threatening civil war. The police came to an arrangement with the Reichsbanner. Hindenburg's victory saved the country from civil war. He thinks that the real power struggle will emerge after the Prussian elections. The editor has agreed that he should remain in Germany until the end of the year, unless he is ejected by the Nazis before that time.