Selv om vi var klare over at der bag besøget lå et ønske om at se hvordan vi havde det i København i den farefulde stilling under den tyske besættelse og prøve hvad råd I kunne give os, forstod du vel også at det bragte os, der kun levede på forhåbningen om et nederlag for den tyske nazisme, i en vanskelig situation at mødes og tale med nogen, der så stærkt som du og Weizsäcker udtrykte jeres sikre overbevisning om en tysk sejr og tillid til hvad den vilde bringe. Naturligvis forstår vi godt, at det måske er svært for jer at holde rede på hvordan I tænkte og udtalte jer på de forskellige tidspunkter under krigen, hvis forløb jo efterhånden ændredes således at overbevisningen om tysk sejr gradvis måtte svækkes for til slut at ende med vished om nederlaget.

Although we realized that behind the visit there was a wish to see how we were faring in Copenhagen in the dangerous situation during the German occupation and find out what advice you could give us, you must also have understood that it brought us, who lived only on the hope of defeat for German Nazism, in a difficult situation to meet and talk to someone who expressed as strongly as you and Weizsäcker your certain conviction of a German victory and confidence in what it would bring. Naturally, we understand that it may be difficult for you to keep track of how you thought and expressed yourselves at the various stages of the war, the course of which changed as time passed so that the conviction of German victory gradually had to weaken and finally end with the certainty of defeat.