English Translation

WALTER WANNENMACHER REINHARD HEYDRICH Politics stands between art and strategy. The planning of the path and the goal and the choice of the means to implement the planning will has the policy in common with the strategy. The elements of strategic planning and the strategic means are essentially abstract; the strategist thinks in numbers that mean units of troops, differences in altitude, transport capacities, firepower, supplies and more. It has to do with exact terms — with one exception, the spirit of the troop — and even the unpredictable influences of opposing influence and weather are palpable as maximum and minimum factors. However, since politics represents itself as an influence on the relations of willingly oriented groups of people, be they peoples, parties or other entities, its planning and its means lack the exact elements. Politics acts in the field of human will formation, i.e. where feelings usually weigh harder than logical considerations. This is why the instinct of the decisive advisors in the political planning and the choice of their means is also, because the abstracting mind alone is often helpless to the