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government in 1933, the fat ex-air ace established an eight-man unit in
his Air Ministry to do as much intercepting as possible. He called it the
Forschungsamt ("Research Office"), but its research was highly
specialized. Apparently attached to the minister's office, it bore no
relation either to the research division of the Luftwaffe's technical office
or to the Luftwaffe's own military intercept and cryptologic unit.
Goring installed the Forschungsamt in a requisitioned building on the
Behrendstrasse, Berlin, but moved it at the end of 1933 to the Hotel am
Knie in the suburb of Chariot-
tenberg. He named as its first chief an old friend and loyal party
member named Hans Schimpf, a former naval lieutenant who had once
served as liaison between the Army and the Navy cryptologic
organizations. In 1934 the unit did exactly what Goring expected it to do
when it supplied him with information that helped him win Hitler to his
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