English Translation

the SD. After the takeover of power, the Reichsführer-SS transferred him to the political department of the Munich Police Bureau, from which he formed the Bavarian Political Police in a few weeks, after which the political police of all non-Prussian countries were transformed into rapid successions. The year 1936 brings the new Reichspolizei, and Heydrich, at the age of 32, will be the head of the Security Police and SD, which will be under the responsibility of the security service (SD), the Secret State Police and the Criminal Police of the Reich. It is crucial, however, to recognize what inner essence Heydrich gave to this part of the young police of the National Socialist Empire in the execution of the instructions given by the Reichsführer-SS and from which ideological fundamental considerations he had assumed. It is one of the tragic events in German history that the German Reich has not had a comprehensive political intelligence service working in the interests of the Reich — tragically both externally and internally. Foreign political, because the foreign intelligence services developed from long traditions, the English intelligence service, the French Deuxième Bureau, the tsarist Ochrana and Soviet GPU, had long since scanned the respective political world constellations and evaluated them for their countries before Germany came into action; domestic political, since the respective heads of state were so little informed about the real situation in the people that even measures that should bring help and relaxation, 21