Three years later, in May 1942, I would have sight of a confidential medical report that raised the possibility that, on Himmler’s orders, Brandt had poisoned Heydrich, who was recovering from wounds sustained during an attack by Czech partisans.
A couple of years later, at Heydrich’s country house near Prague, in Bohemia, Geschke was to remind me of this acquaintance when he tried to strike up a friendship with me. But in 1939 I didn’t know him.