In the footsteps of the German woman - by Ilko Minev

“And there was much more: astonished, we discovered that in the federal archives in Berlin a previously secret document was kept, with the title “Guayana-Projekt”, in which the Amazon specialist and SS Untersturmführer, Schulz-Kampfhenkel, explicitly recommends the invasion and the conquest of French Guiana. For him, it was not acceptable for England to have Guyana, with its capital Georgetown; that the Netherlands owned Suriname; nor that the French possessed French Guiana, with its capital Cayenne, while Germany had no base in that strategic and mineral-rich region. “The seizure of the Guianas is a matter of primary importance for political-strategic and colonial reasons,” he states. In a letter to the Reichsführer of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, dated April 26, 1940, Kampfhenkel also gives the recipe for the easy conquest of those territories: the alliance with the indigenous people and the use of good relations with Brazil, whose president, Getúlio Vargas, according to He would be an admirer of Hitler and Mussolini.”