Whether or not the diminutive Dr. Goebbels went to Italy on June 25 to transfer his personal funds along with the savings of his Fuehrer and other Nazi leaders is a question that is bruited about throughout Europe.
A confidential news agency, confirming many reports that the little man, after having deposited his big bank account, entrained at the Bellinzona station in Italy on June 25, offers evidence to verify the reports.
According to the news agency, Propaganda Minister Goebbels was identified by an Italian secret service agent who had been assigned by “higher ups” to go to the Bellinzona station in the early morning hours to wait for “anything unusual.”
Everything was as usual until shortly before three o’clock, when a great gray coat enveloping a small figure, which the secret service man avers was Dr. Goebbels, was escorted from a Lancia car. Coat, Goebbels and all were bundled aboard the northbound train and rested in the Berlin coach. The Lancia drove back to the south.
The secret service man, according to the news agency, was later lodged in the Milan jail because he “talked and knew too much.”
Reports say that there is no public record of Goebbels’ movements on June 25. The prime propagandist did not appear much in the limelight again until five days later, when Hitler “purged” his Germany.
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