NĚMECKÉ STÁTNÍ MINISTERSTVO PRO ČECHY A MORAVU, PRAHA (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 698, sig. 110-4/549 Page 42 · 42 of 155
GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 698, sig. 110-4549
English Translation
41-15 the deep, at the same time painful assurance that his death did not only accomplish the kingdom of the Creator of a unique work, but more so robbed it of an unborn work. But even his accomplished achievement for the kingdom has remained hidden to this day — according to the nature of his political mission — from the great public. She could only guess when the leader gave the fallen Reinhard Heydrich, as the second German, the highest award that can ever be awarded to a German — the highest level of the German Order — and said farewell to the dead: "He was one of the strongest defenders of the idea of the Reich, one of all the enemies of this empire. It was his achievement, for the first time in history, to give the leadership of the empire a political police force that was completely new in its sense, and a comprehensive political intelligence service, capable of operating, powerful, reliable and factually comprehensive instruments in the most laborious years of its existence. In addition, it is important to note that there is a need to improve the quality of the work. The external execution: In 1931 the 27-year-old radio and news lieutenant to the lake Reinhard Heydrich leaves the Reichsmarine and enters the small Hamburg season as a simple SS-man, becomes the SS-Man of the time of battle in the red Hamburg districts. Already in July of the same year, the Reichsführer-SS called him into the Munich Reichsfahrerführung and transferred his new task to him there: to create a political intelligence service that was powerful in every direction. This was the birth of the security service, 20