English Translation

The first prerequisite for a communication work in this direction was a comprehensive insight into the various professions and contexts of life. And finally, when the war for the leadership of the Reich made the war potential of the German people in every form a first-rate political factor, a political intelligence service must continuously provide the leadership posts of the Party, State and Wehrmacht with the documents required for these leadership posts to form judgements on the numerous war measures. — The political police's working perspectives have changed to no less extent. With a numerically inconceivably small apparatus, a multiple of tasks can be solved. From the political-police task of securing the old empire the task of safeguarding almost all of Europe became. With small commands, the greatest tasks are to be solved, from the northernmost of Norway to the southern tip of the Balkans, from occupied countries of the West to the gang areas of the far-distant Russian region. But the picture of Heydrich's work would remain too incomplete, not to think of the fact that he has guided the following entrusted to him to the greatest extent through his personal example. What he demanded of his men in terms of performance, tenacity and perseverance, restless further work on himself, cleanliness and simplicity of personal conduct, had not only put Heydrich as a requirement to his own person, but had realized exemplary. He was a knightly personality, also in the confrontation with the opponent. The fact that he was an outstanding fencer and athlete meant more than a sporting virtue, rather than a symbol 27