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much. Goring replaced him with Prince Christoph of Hesse, younger
brother of Prince Philip of Hesse, one of Goring's friends since the late
1920s. Christoph, then in his mid-thirties, was the fourth and youngest
son of the Landgrave of Hesse, former ruler of that principality and a
member of one of the oldest traceable families in Christendom (to
Charlemagne). Christoph became a ministerial director in the Air
Ministry and also had the title of Oberfuhrer of the S.S. He died in Italy
in 1941 and was replaced by one of the original members, Gottfried
Schapper.
The Forschungsamt tapped telephones, opened letters, solved
encoded telegrams. Its reports were called Braune Blatter ("Brown
Sheets"). A typical one, of March 19, 1945, which was passed to the
economic division of the armed forces, reported that on March 14 the
Swiss political department informed the Swiss embassy in Lisbon about
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