TheCodeBreakers
This is not to say that the
S.D. was not interested in other people's conversations: it probably did
its share of telephone tapping and mail opening.
After 1936, the S.D. extended its watchdog duties from just the party
to the government as well, with a domestic branch and a foreign branch
that would nullify dangers before they could be launched against the
sacred soil of the German Reich. Probably the S.D. also broadened its
communications activities somewhat. It filched a diplomatic telegram
here and there, and listened in to diplomatic telephone conversations,
even one, on May 7, 1940, between Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
of Britain and Premier Paul Reynaud of France—Chamberlain and Rey-
naud could certainly be considered enemies of Germany and the Nazi
party. But the S.D. probably got most of the external communications
intelligence that it needed from the Forschungsamt, which was quite as
interested as the S.D. in preserving the Nazi regime.
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