Of all the figures in the Nazi Movement that of
Heines, who was arrested with Rohm at the last, was perhaps the most sinister. He has been described by one who knew him as " the primitive type of man who seeks to lay about him with a club." He had been charged and found guilty of manslaughter. He was expelled from the party by Hitler himself a few years ago. In the famous memorandum attributed to Dr. Oberfohren on the subject of the Reichstag Fire Heines is named as the actual incendiary, though the responsibility was attributed to Goring and Goebbels. Yet Hitler, knowing full well what sort of a man politically and morally Reines was, appointed him Chief of Police in Breslau and' Supreme Group Leader in Eastern Germany. The Chancellor, in his recent statement, made the most of the depravity of the men who had been killed, but he was ready again and again to overlook their defects when they were likely to be useful to him. * * *
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