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Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (/ ˈ h aɪ d r ɪ k / HY-drik; German: [ˈʁaɪnhaʁt ˈtʁɪstan ˈʔɔʏɡn̩ ˈhaɪdʁɪç] ⓘ; 7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was a high-ranking German SS and police official during the Nazi era and a principal architect of the Holocaust.. Heydrich was chief of the Reich Security Main Office (including the Gestapo, Kripo, and SD).He was also Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor (Deputy/Acting Reich-Protector) of Bohemia and Moravia.He served as president of ...
Reinhard Heydrich, the commander of the German Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), the acting governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and a principal architect of the Holocaust, was assassinated during the Second World War in a coordinated operation by the Czechoslovak resistance. The assassination attempt, code-named Operation Anthropoid, was carried out by resistance operatives Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš on 27 May 1942. Heydrich was wounded in the attack and died of his ...
5 days ago · Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi German official who was Heinrich Himmler’s chief lieutenant in the Schutzstaffel, the paramilitary corps commonly known as the SS. He played a key role in organizing the Holocaust during the opening years of World War II. On May 27, 1942, he was mortally wounded with a car bomb.
SS General Reinhard Heydrich was chief of: The Security Service of the Reichsführer-SS (Sicherheitsdienst; SD) from 1931 until 1942.The German Secret State Police (Geheime Staatspolizei; Gestapo) from 1934 to 1936.The German Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei; SiPo), which consisted of the Gestapo and the criminal police detective forces (Kriminalpolizei; Kripo), from 1936 until 1942.The Reich Security Main Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt; RSHA); after September 1939, the Security Police ...
Aug 11, 2023 · Reinhard Heydrich was one of Nazi Germany's most notorious figures. Through extensive research and interviews with historians, experts, and survivors, the fi...
Reinhard Heydrich was one of the chief architects of the “Final Solution”. As chief of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), answerable only to Himmler and Hitler, he was given responsibility for coordinating the identification, transportation and murder of European Jewry from the summer of 1941.
Czech Agents who had trained in Great Britain parachuted into German-occupied Czech territory to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich in Prague.. Heydrich was the chief of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) in Berlin—the SS and police agency most directly concerned with implementing the Holocaust during World War II. While still chief of the RSHA, Heydrich also served as Acting Reich Protector of German-occupied Bohemia and Moravia.
Reinhard Heydrich, (born March 7, 1904, Halle, Ger.—died June 4, 1942, Prague, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia), German Nazi official.He resigned from the navy in 1931 to join the SS, becoming SS chief for Berlin (1934), head of the Reich Security Central Office (1939), and Heinrich Himmler’s chief deputy. Noted for his ruthlessness against “enemies of the state,” in the early years of World War II he organized mass executions in the German-occupied territories and became known ...
March 7, 1904 Reinhard Heydrich is born in Halle an der Saale, in the German state of Saxony.. Spring 1922 Heydrich receives his high school diploma. March 30, 1922 Heydrich enlists in the German navy. April 1931
Sep 19, 2011 · As the chair of the Wannsee Conference and head of the Reich Main Security Office, Reinhard Heydrich was the personification of the cruelest aspects of Nazi Germany. But the first scholarly ...
