German General Walter Warlimont tells Mike Lovell about his experience being in the room when an assassination attempt was made on Hitler at his Wolf's Lair military headquaters near Rastenburg in 1944. He addresses the issue of concentration camps which he denies all knowledge of, and discusses Hitler’s plans to possible ally with Ireland to invade Britain.
Walter Warlimont (3 October 1894 – 9 October 1976) was a German staff officer during World War II. He served as deputy chief of the Operations Staff, one of departments in the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW), the Armed Forces High Command. Following the war, Warlimont was convicted in the High Command Trial and sentenced to life imprisonment as a war criminal. He was released in 1954.
General Warlimont was in Belfast to promote his book, ‘Inside Hitler's Headquarters 1939–1945’.
This is a fascinating and historically important interview.