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benevolent chief. His obesity predisposed him to
tranquility [sic]. He was well-read in history, one could converse admirably
with him." After the departure of Schroeder, the post "Assimilated Jews"
remained vacant. But the replacement was promptly appointed. It was Dannecker,
transferred from one of the regional offices of the SD in the provinces where
he also took care of Jewish affairs (CDXXXVII-18),
In the meantime, the
work intensified:
"Now things began slowly to move... That is
what one called the daily entries (Tageseinlauf). The reports of the sections
(regional, local) of the SD, the shipments of materials from the archives
seized by the Gestapo and from which reports were to be addressed to it,
reports of Nazi organizations and of the police services." Towards
the end of 1936, (28) all of the section
II-1 received a new head which was to give it all its impetus. This was F.A.
Six, employed until then as chief of the "Press" section, I-3. It is Six who in
November 1937 was to replace Wisliceny by Hagen, the former being transferred
to Dantzig [sic] to direct the regional section of the SD, "Ideological
Adversaries." Eichmann related that Hagen "tried to set up the affair otherwise
and to animate it..." Thus Six replaced the flegmatic [sic] Wisliceny by Hagen,
who was his protégé and former collaborator in the "Press"
section. Eichmann testified:
"Hagen was an intelligent and broad minded
person. He disposed of a fine general culture and was highly capable of rapidly
assimilating matters of which he had previously no knowledge, of recognizing
what was essential, of extracting it and immediately writing an article on
it... And it is thus that Dr. Six used him as the author of numerous articles
in his monthly, published at the time by the Institute of Foreign Policy under
his editorship..." "At that time he had no idea of Jewish organizations, of
their aspirations, of their goals. The first thing he did on arriving was to
question me... He interrogated me, in fact, in such an exhaustive manner and
wanted to know everything with such precision that it was difficult for me to
come out with everything I knew: more exactly, he pumped out my knowledge until
there was nothing left, the organizations that I named. And the astounding
thing was that he retained all that... I should add that he was assisted in
this by the tables that I have evoked previously, those which were hung on the
walls and which generally indicated at least the names." Hagen had
in Eichmann a serious and extremely zealous collaborator. Eichmann declared
under examination:
"I must say that I procured the Jewish
Encyclopedia and other works in great quantity... At that time I read
enormously in this field and, its goes without saying, all of the Jewish
papers." He said that he studied the Jewish organizations first
hand and that having no executive power and therefore being unable to convoke
Jewish personalities to interrogate them, he obtained these contacts by means
of convocations delivered by the Gestapo.
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