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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 ...
May 31, 2024 · Reinhard Heydrich (born March 7, 1904, Halle, Germany—died June 4, 1942, Prague, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia [now in Czech Republic]) was a Nazi German official who was Heinrich Himmler’s chief lieutenant in the Schutzstaffel (“Protective Echelon”), 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.
May 17, 2021 · Reinhard Heydrich was born on March 7, 1904, in Halle an der Saale, 20 miles northwest of Leipzig, in the German state of Saxony. He was baptized a Roman Catholic. His father, Bruno Heydrich, was an opera singer. He was the director of the music conservatory in Halle, which he had founded in 1901. During World War I and its aftermath, Bruno Heydrich could barely keep the conservatory open due to economies imposed by the war.
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.
Dec 16, 2019 · Heydrich was a key organiser of Nazi Germany's mass murder of European Jews. He chaired the Wannsee Conference in January 1942, where Hitler's genocidal "Final Solution" was planned.
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. He organised and hosted the Wannsee Conference in January 1942, shortly before being assassinated in Prague in May 1942 by Czech resistance fighters (trained and armed by British intelligence). ...
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 Hedyrich is compelled to resign from the navy after being found to have dishonored the officer corps. Soon afterward he becomes involved with the ...
Sep 19, 2011 · Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich was originally supposed to follow his father's footsteps into a career in music. At least that was the wish of his father, Bruno Heydrich, the director of a ...
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 ...
