Metropolis

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There is some confusion about his formal titles: According to his daughter Hilde Horton, nee Weiss, he was both chief of the Berlin Criminal Police and vice president of the Berlin police during the Weimar Republic (Weiner Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, https://portal.ehri-project.eu/units/gb-003348-wl1768). Moreover, Philip translated the title Polizeivizepräsident as both “deputy police president” and “deputy police commissioner.” Although our team at Putnam made a valiant attempt to identify the preferred titles, in this—though nowhere else—their search was unsuccessful, and we decided to acknowledge the inconsistency, which may well be what Philip intended all along.