English Translation

41-68 It should not be forgotten that his truly revolutionary, creative and reshaping work in the field of the criminal police was harmful to the whole nation or to the future of our blood. As in all things, he also addressed the question of crime with sound, sober common sense. At the same time, however, he ensured that the German criminal police received the most modern technical and scientific equipment. As head of the International Criminal Police Commission, he gave all police in the world valuable contributions from his knowledge and experience. Its merit is that crime in Germany has been steadily declining since 1936 and has always reached its lowest level in spite of the war, now in the third year of war. In contrast to the "glorious, humane" democratic countries, all people who in Germany, even in the time of darkening, can walk quietly, unburdened and unchallenged across the streets, may be grateful in their hearts Reinhard Heydrich. Whether they were criminal or political criminals, both of whom are the nation's opponents, they were repeatedly seized with an iron fist and will also be seized by his security police men in the future. From countless conversations with Heydrich, however, I know what this man, who had to be so hard on the outside, often suffered and struggled in his heart, and what it sometimes cost him, yet again and again according to the law of the SS, which obliges us to "neither spare our own nor foreign blood, if it demands the life of the nation," to decide and act. In this way, he, one of the best educators in Nazi Germany, has the SS leader 85