English Translation

The second essential feature that Reinhard Heydrich impressed his security police and his SD was the inner dynamics of this apparatus. Just as the leadership of the empire has been confronted with ever new tasks and problems since the takeover of power at a truly revolutionary pace of development, so this State Protection Corps, although only in its emergence and growth, had to be designed as an instrument of this leadership in itself so flexible, changeable and capable of development that it could keep pace with the ever new Reich tasks at any moment. As early as 1935, Heydrich gave his men a small textbook entitled "Conversions of our struggle", and when the leadership was faced with new tasks and problems, in the appeals of his leader's corps he carried out the implementation of these new Reich problems into the political-police and intelligence tasks. With this inner dynamic of his apparatus, he often demanded the last of his men's performance and took it upon himself to be regarded as hard or not understood as a sufficient employee when he was dismissed, rather than endangering the task for the Reich. For example, if, in the years following the takeover of power, the SD could limit itself primarily to the ideological and political opponents, Freemasons, Jews, Marxists, Communists and the politicizing clergy in their effects and connections in the people's body, it was already a few years later much more important for the uplifting work of the party and the state to determine which forces, traditions, local developments and conditions are to be realized in the most diverse areas of the economy, 26