English Translation

in his commemoration speech: "In the beginning of 1938, the security police were already largely consolidated in every direction and prepared for all tasks. Today it is said calmly that Heydrich had a great merit in the bloodless marches to the Eastern Mark, the Sudetenland and to Bohemia and Moravia, as well as in the liberation of Slovakia by his careful determination and conscientious recording of all opponents and a mostly to the smallest clear overview of the activities of the enemies in these countries, their organizational positions and their leaders. "From this classification of all individual cases into the life of the people in their meaning and their danger to the community, Heydricht also carried out the internal transformation of the criminal police. Who would have thought of criminal offences such as theft, robbery and murder as political events? At the moment, however, in which these crimes are judged not by the civilian perpetrator, but as an offence against the orderly life of the community, as a reduction of the building people's power, the criminal action moves into the sphere of popular political importance. From the point of view of the Community's life, the persecution and condemnation of the crime that has already been committed is sinking to an exclusively secondary stage — but first and foremost, the prevention of crime, which on the one hand protects the Community from the criminal's access and interference from the outset, on the other hand, creates living conditions for the criminally charged person, which do not allow them to be stumbled from the beginning. How much Heydrich has gone new ways here is apparent from the fact that he was elected president of the International Criminal Police Commission in 1940. 25