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Chapter 2: Karma Arises Like Birth [Act 4] Mistaken Body (2)

Tajiri Hikaru was also overjoyed when he saw this, and hurriedly waved his hands and rushed towards the man with a shout. But he didn't want to just take two steps, and there was a 'click' sound of ammunition being loaded in front of him, and he saw dozens of black hole barrels pointing at him in unison, forcing him to immediately raise his hand and bow down. One of the guards stepped forward neatly and jerked Tajiri over, shackling his right wrist with a dangling handcuff.

"Spare - spare your life! I beg you gentlemen to let me in! I have something important to report! In the face of the many firearms that were dead on his head, Tajiri Hikaru was only frightened to the point of quadriplegia, his forehead was drenched in cold sweat, and his two buckteeth couldn't stop 'gurgling', "I want to find Lieutenant General Hoffmann, Director of the Second Division of your Bureau [41] and Chief of the Traffic Police Branch!" ”

The brown-haired man frowned when he heard this, turned his head to look at Mitsuya Tajiri, and slowly spoke: "Trespassing on the Gestapo headquarters, it's not a small bold!" Who are you? As he spoke, he raised his hand and motioned for the guards on duty to escort him to him.

"Hara--you are Lieutenant General Hoffmann! I'm Mitsuya Tajiri, a Japanese student at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Munich, and I have an important matter to report to you. Due to the particularity of intelligence work, Andrew, Ancoste and other high-level Gestapo officials are rarely exposed by the media, and Tajiri Hikaru mistakenly thinks that the man in front of him is Andrew. He immediately gave a funny military salute, laughing so that his knife face was twisted, his eyes narrowed into slits, and he tried his best to flatter: "You really behave elegantly and have an extraordinary bearing!" ”

As soon as the words fell, the black-clothed personnel around them burst into laughter. One of them forced a smile and leaned over to the brown-haired man and whispered: "Dear Dr. Karl Rudolf Werner Best, didn't His Excellency Lieutenant General Andrew Friedrich von Hoffmann have a meeting with the 'National Leader' and others at the Central Ministry of the Interior at 72 Unter den Linden Strasse half an hour ago?" ”

Dr. Best, the current SS district captain, looked displeased when he heard this, and his clear, thin face showed a hint of anger. He raised his index finger to his lips and motioned for the adjutant to be quiet for the time being, secretly wondering how serious the SS presence in Poland was, and that he, who had been appointed head of the Gestapo Departments 1 and 3,[42] could not be invited to participate in the secret meeting, as Heydrich, Andrew, and Artur-Nabi[43] had done. Ironically, the meeting took place in his office at the Reich Central Ministry of the Interior[44] at 72 Unter den Linden Street. Imagine being such an important head of office and not being able to qualify for the conference, Himmler's alienation is obvious.

In his thoughts, Dr. Best's thin lips sneered, knowing that since the spring of 1938, when he had stubbornly opposed Heydrich's idea of making police officers non-servants, there had been a thick gap between him and his old comrade-in-arms. In particular, at the beginning of April this year, when he could not bear to publish an article in the journal "German Rule of Law", vigorously criticizing Heydrich, Andrew and other Gestapo for increasingly not acting in accordance with the law, ignoring the existence of the Central Ministry of the Interior, advocating that administrative jurists hold key and important positions, and calling on the Gestapo to have complete legal knowledge, the gap between him and Heydrich, Andrew and others became more and more insurmountable. And now Himmler's snub and alienation are not the result of these two people's private slander?

In other words, the Gestapo is becoming more and more intense.

Exegesis:

[41] From July 1937 onwards, Heydrich divided the Gestapo headquarters into four main offices, two of which were the political police department, headed by SS flag captain Heinrich Müller, located at the Gestapo headquarters at Prince Albrechtstrasse 8. Historical references: The Black Army: Himmler and the SS, edited by Maiton.

[42] One is the Administrative and Legal Division, located on Unter den Linden in Berlin; The third is the spy police department, located at the Gestapo headquarters at 8 Prince Albrechtstrasse. Historical references: The Black Army: Himmler and the SS, edited by Maiton.

[43] Artur Nabi: Captain of the SS Assault Group II, in charge of the affairs of the Gestapo headquarters, namely the Criminal Police Division, with its office located at the Central Criminal Police Division No. 5-6 Weldel Market. Historical references: The Black Army: Himmler and the SS, edited by Maiton.

[44] Reich Central Ministry of the Interior, 72 Unter den Linden: The Reich Central Ministry of the Interior is located at 72-74 Unter den Linden, Berlin. In the theory of administrative jurists, the connotation of "security police" refers to the entire police system, which is divided into two categories: administrative police (such as traffic police or industrial and commercial police) and various executive police (such as criminal police, public security police, political police and gendarmerie). From 9 March 1937, the meaning of the "security police" changed radically at the hands of Himmler and Heydrich. Himmler merged the political and criminal police in the executive police into a new kind of security police (SIPO), which placed it under Heydrich's leadership; The remainder of the executive police and the administrative police were handed over to the SS competitor Kutdalug and merged into the new Discipline Police (ORPO). The two policemen were under the command of Himmler, the national leader of the German SS and police chief, and formed a department of the Central Ministry of the Interior. Historical references: The Black Army: Himmler and the SS, edited by Maiton.