TheCodeBreakers
In its most famous case,
it transcribed 27 conversations from Goring's office with various officials
in Rome and Vienna that settled Austria's fate in the hours before the
Anschluss. Ironically, one of those whose subservient words to an
overjoyed Hitler were recorded for posterity was Prince Philip, emissary of
the Fiihrer and brother of the chief eavesdropper.
Christoph's membership in the S.S., or Schutzstaffel ("Protection
Staff"), the notorious blackshirted strong arm of the Nazi party, pointed
to a close relationship between the Forschungsamt and the S.D., or
Sicherheitsdienst
("Security Service"), the branch of the S.S. that served as the
ideological watchdog for the Nazis. The S.D., for example, determined
who voted the wrong way in German plebiscites by numbering the back
of the ballots with milk, a simple effective secret ink. Its efforts were
primarily internal, and since private citizens, even conspirators, seldom
annaabi.ee 
