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This installment is called Immigration Interieur.

On May 7, 1945, the writer Thomas Mann wrote the final entry in his wartime diary.

The closing sentence reads, it is not exactly a lation that I feel.

The following day, the Americans broadcast Thomas Mann's apprehensive voice into Germany on the voice of America Beacon.

This broadcast was also published in a number of newspapers the Allies now controlled.

Under the provocative headline, Thomas Mann on German Guild.

The thick walled torture chamber that Hitlerism had made of Germany is broken open.

And our disgrace is bared to the eyes of the world.

It is our disgrace, German listeners and readers, for every German, everyone who speaks German,

right German, has lived as a German, is affected by this shameful exposure.

The world shudders at the sight of Germany, even the German who escaped an ample time from the realm of national socialist leadership

who did not like to live in the vicinity of these abodes of abomination,

did not like to go about his business in ostentable virtue and pretend to know nothing

while the wind carried the stench of charred human flesh to his nostrils.

Even this German is ashamed in the depths of his soul for the things that were possible in the land of his fathers and his masters.

On May 10, yet another version of this essay went out on German radio.

The BBC had been transmitting mon regularly since 1941 for a series called Listen Germany.

This was the final broadcast.

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