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of these agenoiea by Hiandtr and the SS. ELraaler's appointment aa Chef dor
Deutschen Polisei (Chief of the Görnan Police), in 1936., created« according
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to serai-official interpretation, not merely a union in the person of iiio
officeholder ( r Fsraonalunit n' 1 ) tut a permanent association ("dauernde Verbindung")
between the police und the SS. In 1939 FiüEiler was mad® Reiohakonsaiasar für
•IIIWI^IIIH- ••••» — »—«—m » giwi PIU ii • i
die Festigung aes deutschen Volkstum« (Reioh Coiaraisaionsr for Garaur-n Folkdom)
»h led to tho establishment of unothei' Heuptsjmt (SJain Office)^ the Stab«'--
,:it dea RoichBkffaaanisfltjra fftr die Fe^t-'.{;uug des deutschen Volkstum» (Staff
of the Reich Gossni8B:.onor for the Consolidation of German folkdom)» In
August 19^3 Himler became Minister of the Interior and* at tiie same tine,
Reich CoHHiiei'iorer for Administration in the Ministerial Council for the Defense
of the Reich, positions relinquished by Wilhelm Frick» fh3 S3 thus gained
control of the heart of the or.tire Gerran aurecuoracy»
E&rly in 1944, finally, the SS «torbed to make their dscieivo inroads
on tfaa Supreme Coian&nd of bhe Armed Forces and of the Aray« Oavisiono I, II„
and III of the Atraehr (the Espionage* ^including tho Sabotage ar,d Counter­
espionage functions of tho German military intelligence service) piased from
the Supreme Ccaraand of the Armed Forcej 'C©0 to the juriediction of tha
Mllitjlriaohea Amt (Military Office) withir the ReichsBicherlieitsherqptarat
(Reic" Security Office} of the SS Sujreme Command« In «3u~y 1944,
Himmler •was «tppointed Befehlshaber des Erfratzheerea (Cosraaanler in Chief of the
Reolftcemant .&m?r) and Chef 6er Heerearoetvng (Chief of Militär?' Arasjnent),,
1. ROBI. part I, p0 487.
2. Worm? Beat., in Si© ^utashe Poliaeij 1940c
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