"POLICEMAN'S LOT" "6:30, wake up. 7:00, news." "7:20, Sürlin St.," "Einstein St., behind the fort, Frieden St.," "Hauptmann-Loeper St., Augsburg Square, Römer St.," "Yorck St., Karl St., Falkenberg St.," "Einstein St., Sürlin St. 8:30, end of morning walk." "Müller-Segeberg has a long day ahead." "I, Karl Müller-Segeberg, am a former police constable." "Still fit for duty." "Yes, sir, still fit!" "It is incomprehensible to me that I was pensioned off at just 60." "After proving myself under more than 5 governments, they just dropped me." "I was born in 1900 in Grünberg, on the estate of Mr von Westrum." "I cannot remember my childhood." "Proved myself on von Westrum's estate." "Back then, they said:" "If someone asks "Why?", you say "Because!"" "We proved ourselves again in early 1918, as we went to battle in WWI." "My superior said that WWI was a welcome lesson for us." "After we'd fought for 4 months, the old order showed its frailty." "Leader and friend:" "Captain Gebhard and instructing officer Schulze." ""We took Riga."" "On my return from the Baltics" "I found a new, different order, and I had to prove myself again." "On friends' advice I joined the Prussian police, who were republicans then, that is, Red." "Our instructor was Commander Schubert." "Our syllabus work was considerable." "First priority: the law." "Individual drill without weapons." "Drill with weapons." "Training for supervisory duty." "Funeral parades." "After we'd learned everything, we were to follow the constitution." "In a street riot in 1926, I threw a Nazi so hard to the ground that he died." "My name was not disclosed." "Due to this incident, I was transferred to foodstuffs duty." "The Nazis are coming!" "New challenge!" "Yielded to Sturmbannführer Quenstedt on 'Potsdam Day'." "He returned the favour on November 9." "Obedient in service!" "Ready in war!" "In February 1942, my unit was sent to the East." "Of note was the sports festival in Minsk." "We had orders to surround the villages without harming anyone, but rather to take prisoners." "Other times we had to burn villages." "In one case we surrounded a village in the middle section." "After we'd cut off the village, we fired anti-tank missiles." "In Minsk we had to shoot a Russian girl who'd been with a German officer." "One should also remember the Estonian police." "After proving myself in the East, I'd to do so under the Allies." "Took part in guarding a military court." "I was put forward as police constable and accepted." "In 1953 I apprehended a fugitive." "I was happy to serve as a guard at a large church rally." "We had to watch for pickpockets and take measures against them." "We were to ensure that events ran smoothly, and to create an appropriate and prestigious general framework." "Some of the people in the crowd attempted to break through." "In 1960, in a forest in Ulm, I caught a man and woman having it off." "As the couple ran away, I fired a shot to make them stop." "It was dark, and I missed." "Pensioned off in 1960 due to unlawfully firing a gun." "No one can prevent me from entering my workplace as usual." "I only go to the canteen, however, and have something to drink." "I find my forced early retirement to be improper." "As I expressed to a superior that my early retirement was unjustified, the cause was not given, I was told that I'd done something bad in the Third Reich." "When I proved that it wasn't the case, I was accused of being in the Red police at the time." "In my opinion, my dismissal was not for these reasons, but because I resisted a superior officer:" "Commander Rottlauf." "I said," ""I reject the notion of equipping the police with grenades."" "Rottlauf said, "Then you do not acknowledge the Communist danger."" "I replied, "According to paragraph 139 of the code relating to rioters:" "The goal of the police in dealing with armed demonstrators is to restore law and order by disarming and arresting offenders."" "I said," ""Imagine you have some Communists in a building." "I could set it ablaze," "I could purge it." "But if I fire grenades," "I cannot distinguish between rioters and non-rioters."" "My superior replied, "You cannot be taught."" "I would be prepared to join the police and prove myself again, as every policeman still does." "I do not understand why someone who diligently proved himself is pensioned off." "Someone who would prove himself before every challenge according to the regulations, who follows democratic principles as he did National Socialist ones, and as a tool of the people, as much as a servant of his superiors and the people," "as one is trained to do and as it is practiced." ""I would punch anyone in the face who did not act in a democratic way."" "K. Müller-Segeberg"