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four times on "Legal Aspects of the State of German
Jewry"; Hagen, eighteen times on "The Structure of World Jewry" and on
"Practical Methods for Dealing with the Jewish Problem."
Whom was he
addressing? One special course, on May 4, 1938, some months before the Munich
agreements, was given for the benefit of Conrad Heinlein, the Sudeten
Führer, another, at the Peoples Court, for the police and Nazi Party press
corps and militants; another, at the War College, for S.S. non commissioned
officers; another, at the Border Police School, for Nazi Party inspectors;
another, at the Security Police School, for Nazi Party representatives abroad
and law students.
Eighteen seminars in six months! And that went on for
years. That is how the internal mechanism of the government and the Nazi Party
were infected. Hagen applied all his judicial and police talents to a task that
seemed impossible to accomplish between 1935 and 1940, but that was achieved
between 1940 and 1945 because of the groundwork done by a handful of men, of
whom Hagen was one of the leaders.
Eichmann and Hagen got along
wonderfully well. "Dear Adolf" wrote to his "Dear Herbert," signing himself
"Ady." The letters they exchanged were handwritten and often intimate. On May
2, 1938, Eichmann wrote to Hagen:
The first issue of Zionistische
Rundschau [a Jewish newspaper] will appear on Friday. I had the copy sent
to me and am now in the boring process of censoring it. Of course, all of you
will get the paper. To a certain extent it will be "my paper." I made those
gentlemen trot, believe me. They are now working very hard indeed.
I expect
to become head of the division . . . . Things in Vienna are going well toward
that end. You know how I truly dislike having to leave work that I have enjoyed
so much ever since I started, but you can also well understand that I don't
want to "lag behind" at the age of only thirty two. Our boss [Six] is an
excellent one and completely understands.
Hagen to
Eichmann, June 28,1938:
As you requested, I have read very
carefully issue 25 of Stürmer [Julius Streicher's extremely
anti-Semitic newspaper] dated June 1938, in which Hiemer has written two whole
pages without saying anything important about his visit to Vienna. Allow me to
say that in spite of your indisputable eloquence, you have failed to endow
Stürmer with your usual objectivity and give it a new style.
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