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R;POI l.' OF COj'ICElTl'H/ITIOa CH'..1,P IWIABI ...ANT
OJ.lGl\ SCHAUB nctr~,ss
In view of my nctivi ties as an active in a poli ti(~rtl
W!ty
nnd
·...,·lS
also not nntionul socinlistioally
inc lined, though my step- bro ther, Julius gruppenfuehrer "nd Hitler~ adJutnnt. f!,lCt th:l t a~ninst
~;chl1ub, WllS
SS-Ober-
On the contrary, the
I never even joined the NSDAP, he frequently held
me.
I could never be in accord with the progrnm of
the NSDA? nnd h:'ve 'lLvuys :~nd
I hove never been
h:~d
many
ucqualnt~ncee
nmong Jews,
w::s in no wny willins to give up my reln tiona \"li th my Jewish
friends at home :1nd nbro:'ld.
Among other things, my step-brother
!fIas grent1y opposed to hnving me use my renl name on the stnge (ex('ept in films) so thr:t I
V'lRS
finally forced to use the
st'--lga nl'me of Jennette Madlon. Following nn invitntion of my Jewish friends, I went to Lor,don in in
th(~
~overt.bel·,
spring of 1939.
M.}' friends h1ld fled trom Berlin
1938, on ,lCCOunt of the pereecn tion of the Jews,
--nd because of their depFlrture in1haate, they left a substantial p'rt of their baggage behind. took the could to
rn~}
b:,ge:~ge
o111'~
I huve helped them in that I
they h::d- loft behind for them to London.
I
do this ber,'1U!H! of my Pl ssport, Vlhich was issued
in my cnpaoity
HS
:Jctre8s~
an
other'dise it would have
bel,.n impo8 sible to t,lke alorlb so much baggage.
impression that at thnt time alreHdy I
Wf'S
I
VieS
under the
L.hmys being wt'tched
by the SS, while my brother also detlonstrt\ted grant in'tarest
ill my trnve1tl at ,"11 ti.mes.
After a stay of three weekl:oi in
London, I returned to Berlin :.md until
th(~
outbreak of the
~,,[jr
I \':orked in Hambure, ,':h ere I performed us n dnncer in :: revue.
\
'rhr0ughout thf,3 winter I :lgnin wus in Berlin, but I RlvJays had in mind to go ;;broad :-;8 S00n ~lS poesi ble.
Finully, in the
summer of 1948, I succeeded in getting to \Vnrsuw. brand I w:.s only nb1e to
m:~ke po~si.ble
This trip
becr.use of the help
given me by Mr. Grodcieczkie, the former Polish
inister for
Tr'de ~nd Economy, in th~t he ong-gad me as aeoretl~y to be
,
~ielna
the correspondence for his firm, sttll, ':Jm:s::w, ~5.
I
time, I
then lived for
y,:llrs in '·'-arG;':V/ and, during that
t\!O
Jus t a
nble to serve roy host cOlluiderably.
'1U'S
few cxumples will illucidata this point: 5ch~ub
SS-Obergruppenfuehrer
I
WHS
thin~s,
sister of the
1S
of course f a1
f
thi~
mitted to the higher :luthor1ties and in learn of important
raids ',vere
schcdulBd~
h~vine
as he w::s
Thus I w/)s
tho house :.:hen I knew th3 t SS ~.l
member of the inteiligence Furthermore, to tht~
his house confisc:1ted nnd evacuated, I informed ac(~us:
ad-
of which I would at all times
he wns nlw:'ys subject to pe,rsecution.
ohurged',ith
!~YB
1'.;:' I could ,.11U.yS
promptly inform my host, Mr. von Grodcioczkie. r..ble to warn him I'g;;inst
street
tlon of the o.·ncr that I
s~ve
office
living in
'iDE
the hOllse and an evacuation could not possibly be expected of me.
(Of course, personally I did not live in his Villa).
s t~~tement I mnde
Wf-!S
enough to olmcsl the cv"cuation ord(!r.
Among othert$ there wus his friend, the Brigeowioz, who
nls~
was my friHnd
!.~
.xicr:n Gonsul, Julian
';nd ",,,ho rmd been held in
f
the prison of Pall/inc, fn'it'arstlw, for the past ye!:r. h~.d
arrested because through his signature ho Jews to flee to
The
Mf~xioo, :.~t
He was
hHlpod tl:ree
the outbreak of w':Jr.
Finnll,
lfter ono year ,~Je succeeded to bribe th () c~.mp elootor (Ilnfortunately I don t knO'1l the n:lUlO anymort3) decl~lre
of 4.000. - ,Uoty agreed to un lble to endure internment.
immediately.
th,'~t
I\t
time I
As W;;6
H
i.~nony.l1l()us
roceived sevf3rfll luxurious life in I
I .
I I
I
l,'·;nr~:l\:{
',Iho for the Bum
nrigeO\;icz
ret,;ul t
t lrei\d~/
the 58, Ii/hieh un.fortunu tely I onl,
t
t
l... S
ill :.nd
h'l ,,~U:i role.:ued
baint,; 'lJIJtched by
lo::rnud h-. ter on.
r
l£?tteru pointing out tblit my
wol11cl soon como to nn end and a bullet
vould hit me on tho strE-'et ona or thosu dHyS. attention to these let ters, un til, ho\':ever,
011C
: did not pay
finp
d~:,!
in
Augus t, 1942, three S::-men HppeiJred in r-ly qmrtQ.wIl 1.. l.1nd informed me that thHy \oJere com:1issioned ·to "aka me to Berlin immt1di8tely on order of the
~djutant~
office of
tht~ ~(eichs
lCFlder, f-S HimmlerJ
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return! • f1'"
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cn',d "doh" (·f th
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t~·
.elea:.; l.c .!e.r.
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I ilgl'aed t:l.:t •. l'ter my r()~e."i.:: 1 '.~,uld .Lee
life
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