Hans von Haeften
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Lieutenant-Colonel, later Colonel; head of the Military Office of the Foreign Office (MAA), 1916-1918; Supreme Army Command representative at government conferences in October 1918 · Germany
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“The telephone message has been correctly repeated by Mr. von Payer. General Ludendorff thought that we might be able to hold out for perhaps two weeks longer, but that the crisis might come then, and that a delay of four days would therefore be considerable. Also at General Headquarters they did not sufficiently appreciate the difficulties of forming a new government.”
English: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Division of International Law (Preliminary History of the Armistice, 1924). Original-language text not found.
Haeften, who represented the Supreme Army Command at the Chancellor's conferences, confirms Vice-Chancellor Payer's account of Ludendorff's telephone message of 1 October 1918 about the timing of the first German armistice note, and adds what Ludendorff thought about holding out.
Statement by Colonel von Haeften, conference of 11 October 1918 (Document No. 42), in Preliminary History of the Armistice: Official Documents Published by the German National Chancellery, trans. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Division of International Law (New York: Oxford University Press, 1924), p. 62; German: Vorgeschichte des Waffenstillstandes: Amtliche Urkunden (Berlin: Reimar Hobbing, 1919) Source