Less than twenty miles away, in the town of Oranienburg, the first prisoners were being hauled into the Sachsen- hausen concentration camp.

The American steamer Chattahoochee, formerly the German Sachsen, was sunk off the English coast on March 25.

The sound of the governor's voice had scarcely died in the marbled corridors when Sachsen, the omniscient, the indispensable secretary, bustled into the sanctum.