>Hitler offered total cessation of the war in the West.
>Germany would evacuate all of France except Alsace and Lorraine, which would remain German.
>It would evacuate Holland and Belgium, retaining Luxembourg.
>It would evacuate Norway and Denmark.
>In short, Hitler offered to withdraw from Western Europe, except for the two French provinces and Luxembourg [Luxembourg was never a French province, but an independent state of ethnically German origin], in return for which Great Britain would agree to assume an attitude of benevolent neutrality towards Germany as it unfolded its plans in Eastern Europe.
>In addition, the Führer was ready to withdraw from Yugoslavia and Greece.
>German troops would be evacuated from the Mediterranean generally and Hitler would use his good offices to arrange a settlement of the Mediterranean conflict between Britain and Italy.
>No belligerent or neutral country would be entitled to demand reparations from any other country, he specified.
>The proposal contained many other points, including plans for plebiscites and population exchanges where these might be necessitated by shifts in population that has resulted from the military action in Western Europe and the Balkans.
>But the versions circulating in authoritative circles all agree on the basic points outlined above.
>In a prepared preamble, Hess explained the importance of Hitler's Eastern mission "to save humanity," and indicated how perfectly the whole arrangement would work out for Britain and France, not only from the ideological and security angles but also commercially. Germany, he pointed out, would take the full production of the Allied war industries until they could be converted to a peacetime basis, thus preventing economic depression.
