English Translation

the structure of his being. Highest personal respect bound his followers to him, for everyone knew how restless he had worked, how simple his lifestyle had been, how he could not be surpassed by speedy comprehension and quick, necessarily the essence of the matter, how once worked out material processes were indelibly imprinted on his memory, and how in his hand the threads of this widely branched apparatus ran together safely and compellingly. He was a real leader of his followers because he was the first in all of this following. Certainly it was in the essence of his office that he, as the head of a political intelligence service and the political police of the Reich, who dealt with all areas of life, had a often unimaginable wealth of life processes and problems. For his staff, however, it was always surprising to see with what range of spirit and what original personal interest he addressed and worked on all these questions, whether these were problems of economics, popular politics, education, administration, the school system, minority treatment, science, art and folk culture, church politics and so on. Thus, in the year after his death, when our view of his image fell into our study, this became more than a mere reminiscence that it was often like a personal encounter that gave confidence and strength. From the memory, moments arise, which surround Heydrich's beings particularly concisely, so that motto, which he gave to his commands on the march to the East: "Be hard, where you must be hard, be kind where you may be kind." Issue 5-6 "Bohemians and Moravian" 28