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Eli did not understand what he wanted. He turned
around and the man pointed to the hat. What a relief! Eli gave him the hat and
the policeman said: "Thank you."
It was a comic scene; but I was
nervous because we had to get out of there as quickly as possible. Lischka was
lying on the ground. Beate had her chance to start campaigning against Nazi
criminals.
Three minutes later we were in the woods, where we shifted
to the other car. We were to meet Beate at the entrance to the highway, but
since we could hear police sirens, we did not wait for her. We threw the
hypodermic needles and the chloroform capsules out on the roadside. I realized
that we had taken the road to Cologne. We couldn't get back on the right road
until we were almost to Aix-la-Chapelle. At the frontier no one asked us any
questions.
There was to be a sequel to the Lischka operation. But
first, let's take a look at his record.
THE LISCHKA RECORD
Paris. October 1940. Sprightly, youthful Dr. Helmuth Knochen felt
slightly overwhelmed by his multiple duties. As head of the S.D.-Security
Police, he tended to devote himself to political intelligence, his true
calling. Furthermore, he was the single high police officer in Hitler's Europe
who had not risen from the ranks of the Gestapo.
In Berlin, Reinhard
Heydrich, the head of the Central Security Bureau of the Reich (RSHA), was
worried that Paris was the weak link in the police chain he was forging in the
conquered lands. He consulted Heinrich Müller, the head of the Gestapo,
who shared his concern:
"I need someone besides Knochen in Paris –
an extremely competent man to dedicate himself specifically to police
operations and, above all, to take over the work of the Gestapo."
Müller checked over his best men and came up with the name of
S.S.-Sturmbannführer Kurt Lischka.
"But isn't he in charge of the
Cologne Gestapo?" Heydrich remembered a blond officer, over six feet tall, a
perfect Aryan type.
"Yes. He's an excellent organizer insofar as police
work is concerned, and he's on the city council as well as being one of our
foremost experts on the Jewish problem. He had just turned thirty. He's a
dynamic man."
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