Reinhard Heydrich
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'''Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich''' (sometimes incorrectly spelled as ''Reinhardt'', Alexis Virgin March 7, Mosquito ringtone 1904 - Allison Virgin June 4, Secret ringtone 1942) was an ''Amy Virgin Obergruppenführer'' in the Download ringtones Nazi German paramilitary corps - the Angelina Virgin SS led by Cingular ringtones Heinrich Himmler. He was nicknamed ''The Butcher of Prague'', ''The Blond Beast'' and ''Der Henker'' (German for ''the hangman'').
Early Life
He was born in Anna Virgin Halle, Saxony-Anhalt. His father and mother were both very heavily musically involved (his father was a composer), and Heydrich developed a passion for the Cingular Ringtones violin, which was to continue throughout his life. Although Heydrich was a shy boy, he excelled physically and grew up to be handsome and fit. He was an impressive athlete, excelling in at brandeis fencing and swimming.
Heydrich participated in the helped bush freikorps when he was young. In guy props 1922 he joined the navy, however he was later dismissed when he had a brief liaison with a shipyard director's daughter, and subsequently became engaged to a young woman, Lina von Osten. The daughter told her father of her anger over the incident, and he was subsequently charged with "conduct unbecoming to an officer and a gentleman". His behavior in court was apparently so disdainful that the court also rebuked him for insubordination. Heydrich was left with no career prospects. However, he remained engaged to von Osten, whom he married in deposed newt 1931.
Nazi Party and the SS
In 1931, imposing of Himmler began to set up a counter-intelligence division of the SS. Acting on a friend's advice, he interviewed Heydrich, and after a twenty minute test whereby Heydrich had to outline plans for the new division, Himmler hired him on the spot. In doing so Himmler also effectively recruited Heydrich into the Nazi Party.
At this time he was relatively insignificant within the Nazi intelligence apparatus. He and his staff spent their time building up a card-file system on all persons who were considered a threat to the Party, often including party officials themselves. Heydrich supported his family on a meagre salary and worked in a tiny office.
In cesare and July advertising director 1932 his division took on the title of instead attention Sicherheitsdienst (SD). Heydrich built up a mutually beneficial partnership with Himmler. Later he became the head of the ellen may RSHA/Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) of which the SD, the busch milwaukee Gestapo and the lacks conviction Einsatzgruppen were parts.
Upon the establishment of the ''rational political Third Reich'', Heydrich helped go gullane Adolf Hitler 'dig up dirt' on many political opponents, keeping an impressive filing system listing individuals and organizations opposing the party and the regime. He was also instrumental in establishing the false 'attack' by to reassume Poland on German national discovered year radio at Gleiwitz, which was to be the beginning of victors of World War II.
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Heydrich was one of the main architects of the dr penny Holocaust during the first years of backgrounds that World War II and chaired the Wannsee conference, at which plans for the deportation of the Jews to extermination camps were discussed.
Assassination
In September 1941 Heydrich was appointed Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, replacing Konstantin von Neurath whom Hitler considered insufficently harsh. During his role as de facto dictator of Bohemia and Moravia, Heydrich often drove alone in a car with an open roof — a show of confidence in the occupational forces and the effectiveness of their repressive measures against the local population.
On May 27, 1942 a team of United Kingdom/British-trained agents of the Czechoslovakia/Czechoslovak government in exile carried out the assassination of Heydrich in Operation Anthropoid. The team comprised of Adolf Opalka (the leader), Josef Valcik, Jan Kubis (Operation Anthropoid)/Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabcik. Heydrich's car, driven by ''SS-Oberscharführer'' Klein, had to slow down to take a sharp bend where the Czech team waited. As the car approached, Gabcik took aim and pulled the trigger of his Sten, but the gun failed and did not fire. Klein, believing Gabcik to be alone, stopped to shoot at him. Kubis then threw an anti-tank grenade at the car. This exploded and severely wounded Heydrich, forcing car seat material including horse hair into his spleen. Evidence suggests that if Heydrich had remained seated he would have lived. The Czech agents were later tracked down by occupation forces to a nearby church in Prague and committed suicide to avoid capture.
Despite Himmler sending his best doctors, Heydrich died in agony in a Prague hospital at 4:30am on June 4 at the age of 38. Although the exact cause of death has not been definitively established, the autopsy states that Heydrich's death was most likely septicemia caused by bacteria and toxins from grenade splinters. A highly elaborate funeral was staged for him in Berlin, with Hitler attending. Hitler himself perhaps best encapsulated Heydrich's general attitude, in his acknowledgment that Heydrich was partly to blame for his own death through arrogance and a blasé attitude:
:"Since it is the opportunity which makes not only the thief but also the assassin, such heroic gestures as driving in an open, unarmoured vehicle or walking about the streets unguarded are just damned stupidity, which serves the ''Fatherland'' not one whit. That a man as irreplaceable as Heydrich should expose himself to unnecessary danger, I can only condemn as stupid and idiotic."
Lina Heydrich later stated that she believed Heydrich had expected a young death, saying that she saw his frequent unnecessary risk-taking (such as his valiant adventures in his Luftwaffe Me 109) as an attempt to ensure that, should he die, his would be a dramatic death.
The Nazi retaliation was savage, and a brutal warning against further armed resistance. On June 10 all males over the age of 16 in the village of Lidice, 22 km north-west of Prague, were murdered a day after the town was burned. It has been reported that over 15,000 Czechs were killed in reprisals.
Heydrich's eventual replacement was Ernst Kaltenbrunner.
After Heydrich's death, the first three "trial" death camps were constructed and put into operation at Treblinka extermination camp/Treblinka, Sobibór, and Belzec. The project was named Operation Reinhard in Heydrich's honor.
Summary of SS Career
=Dates of Rank=
* SS-Mann (military rank)/Mann: 14 July 1931
* SS-Sturmführer: 10 August 1931
* SS-Sturmhauptführer: 1 December 1931
* SS-Sturmbannführer: 25 December 1931
* SS-Standartenführer: 29 July 1932
* SS-Oberführer: 21 March 1933
* SS-Brigadeführer: 9 November 1933
* SS-Gruppenführer: 30 June 1934
* SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Ordnungspolizei/Polizei: 27 September 1941
=Service History=
* July 1931: Appointed as an SS member under SS Number 10120
* August 1931: Appointed as SS officer and tasked with forming the SS Security Service
* July 1932: Founds the ''Sicherheitsdienst''
* June 1934: Appointed Commander of the ''Sicherheitspolizei''
* September 1939: Founder and first Commander of the ''RSHA/Reichssicherheitshauptamt''
* September 1941: Appointed as Deputy Reichsprotector of Bohemia and Moravia
* January 1942: Chairman of the Wannsee Conference
* May 1942: Attacked by British supported Czech partisans in Prague
* June 1942: Dies from wounds received in partisan attack
=Notable decorations=
* German Order (Posthumous)
* Blood Order (Posthumous)
* Golden Nazi Party Badge
* Iron Cross (First and Second Classes)
* Aviator Badge/Luftwaffe Pilot's Badge
* Luftwaffe Reconnaissance Flying Clasp
* Danzig Cross (First Class)
* Anschluss Medal
* Sudentenland Medal with Prague Castle Bar
* Memel Medal
* Olympic Games Decoration (First Class)
* Social Welfare Decoration (First Class)
* NSDAP Long Service Ribbon for 10 years service
* Police Service Ribbon for 18 years service
=Additional service=
Reinhard Heydrich also served as Reserve Hauptmann in the Luftwaffe. He flew combat missions in Poland, France, and Russia before being forbidden to fly by Adolf Hitler as it was realized that Heydrich's capture as a POW would be a major security breach to Germany.
A historical irony to Heydrich's death is that he died on the same day as the Battle of Midway, a key turning point in World War II.
Fiction
The events of the Wannsee conference are recreated in the 1984 TV Movie ''Wannseekonferenz'' (''The Wannsee Conference'')http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088377/], with Kenneth Branagh playing Reinhard Heydrich. The Conference was also the subject of a 1992 English language documentary film entitled ''The Wannsee Conference'' directed by Dutch director Willy Lindwer [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0393959/].
The plot to kill Heydrich is central to the plot of the 1998 novel ''As Time Goes By'', a sequel to the movie ''Casablanca (movie)/Casablanca'', written by Michael Walsh. (ISBN 0446519006). The assassination itself has been dramatised in the 1943 Fritz Lang film ''Hangmen Also Die'' (written by Bertolt Brecht) http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0035966].
Reference
''The Killing of Reinhard Heydrich: The SS "Butcher of Prague"'', by Callum McDonald. ISBN 0306808609
''Assassination : operation Anthropoid 1941-1942'', by Michael Burian. Prague: Avis, 2002.
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'''Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich''' (sometimes incorrectly spelled as ''Reinhardt'', Alexis Virgin March 7, Mosquito ringtone 1904 - Allison Virgin June 4, Secret ringtone 1942) was an ''Amy Virgin Obergruppenführer'' in the Download ringtones Nazi German paramilitary corps - the Angelina Virgin SS led by Cingular ringtones Heinrich Himmler. He was nicknamed ''The Butcher of Prague'', ''The Blond Beast'' and ''Der Henker'' (German for ''the hangman'').
Early Life
He was born in Anna Virgin Halle, Saxony-Anhalt. His father and mother were both very heavily musically involved (his father was a composer), and Heydrich developed a passion for the Cingular Ringtones violin, which was to continue throughout his life. Although Heydrich was a shy boy, he excelled physically and grew up to be handsome and fit. He was an impressive athlete, excelling in at brandeis fencing and swimming.
Heydrich participated in the helped bush freikorps when he was young. In guy props 1922 he joined the navy, however he was later dismissed when he had a brief liaison with a shipyard director's daughter, and subsequently became engaged to a young woman, Lina von Osten. The daughter told her father of her anger over the incident, and he was subsequently charged with "conduct unbecoming to an officer and a gentleman". His behavior in court was apparently so disdainful that the court also rebuked him for insubordination. Heydrich was left with no career prospects. However, he remained engaged to von Osten, whom he married in deposed newt 1931.
Nazi Party and the SS
In 1931, imposing of Himmler began to set up a counter-intelligence division of the SS. Acting on a friend's advice, he interviewed Heydrich, and after a twenty minute test whereby Heydrich had to outline plans for the new division, Himmler hired him on the spot. In doing so Himmler also effectively recruited Heydrich into the Nazi Party.
At this time he was relatively insignificant within the Nazi intelligence apparatus. He and his staff spent their time building up a card-file system on all persons who were considered a threat to the Party, often including party officials themselves. Heydrich supported his family on a meagre salary and worked in a tiny office.
In cesare and July advertising director 1932 his division took on the title of instead attention Sicherheitsdienst (SD). Heydrich built up a mutually beneficial partnership with Himmler. Later he became the head of the ellen may RSHA/Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) of which the SD, the busch milwaukee Gestapo and the lacks conviction Einsatzgruppen were parts.
Upon the establishment of the ''rational political Third Reich'', Heydrich helped go gullane Adolf Hitler 'dig up dirt' on many political opponents, keeping an impressive filing system listing individuals and organizations opposing the party and the regime. He was also instrumental in establishing the false 'attack' by to reassume Poland on German national discovered year radio at Gleiwitz, which was to be the beginning of victors of World War II.
accumulate results Image:Himmler_Heydrich.jpg/thumb/right/ Head of the SS, morse the Heinrich Himmler, and Heydrich
Heydrich was one of the main architects of the dr penny Holocaust during the first years of backgrounds that World War II and chaired the Wannsee conference, at which plans for the deportation of the Jews to extermination camps were discussed.
Assassination
In September 1941 Heydrich was appointed Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, replacing Konstantin von Neurath whom Hitler considered insufficently harsh. During his role as de facto dictator of Bohemia and Moravia, Heydrich often drove alone in a car with an open roof — a show of confidence in the occupational forces and the effectiveness of their repressive measures against the local population.
On May 27, 1942 a team of United Kingdom/British-trained agents of the Czechoslovakia/Czechoslovak government in exile carried out the assassination of Heydrich in Operation Anthropoid. The team comprised of Adolf Opalka (the leader), Josef Valcik, Jan Kubis (Operation Anthropoid)/Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabcik. Heydrich's car, driven by ''SS-Oberscharführer'' Klein, had to slow down to take a sharp bend where the Czech team waited. As the car approached, Gabcik took aim and pulled the trigger of his Sten, but the gun failed and did not fire. Klein, believing Gabcik to be alone, stopped to shoot at him. Kubis then threw an anti-tank grenade at the car. This exploded and severely wounded Heydrich, forcing car seat material including horse hair into his spleen. Evidence suggests that if Heydrich had remained seated he would have lived. The Czech agents were later tracked down by occupation forces to a nearby church in Prague and committed suicide to avoid capture.
Despite Himmler sending his best doctors, Heydrich died in agony in a Prague hospital at 4:30am on June 4 at the age of 38. Although the exact cause of death has not been definitively established, the autopsy states that Heydrich's death was most likely septicemia caused by bacteria and toxins from grenade splinters. A highly elaborate funeral was staged for him in Berlin, with Hitler attending. Hitler himself perhaps best encapsulated Heydrich's general attitude, in his acknowledgment that Heydrich was partly to blame for his own death through arrogance and a blasé attitude:
:"Since it is the opportunity which makes not only the thief but also the assassin, such heroic gestures as driving in an open, unarmoured vehicle or walking about the streets unguarded are just damned stupidity, which serves the ''Fatherland'' not one whit. That a man as irreplaceable as Heydrich should expose himself to unnecessary danger, I can only condemn as stupid and idiotic."
Lina Heydrich later stated that she believed Heydrich had expected a young death, saying that she saw his frequent unnecessary risk-taking (such as his valiant adventures in his Luftwaffe Me 109) as an attempt to ensure that, should he die, his would be a dramatic death.
The Nazi retaliation was savage, and a brutal warning against further armed resistance. On June 10 all males over the age of 16 in the village of Lidice, 22 km north-west of Prague, were murdered a day after the town was burned. It has been reported that over 15,000 Czechs were killed in reprisals.
Heydrich's eventual replacement was Ernst Kaltenbrunner.
After Heydrich's death, the first three "trial" death camps were constructed and put into operation at Treblinka extermination camp/Treblinka, Sobibór, and Belzec. The project was named Operation Reinhard in Heydrich's honor.
Summary of SS Career
=Dates of Rank=
* SS-Mann (military rank)/Mann: 14 July 1931
* SS-Sturmführer: 10 August 1931
* SS-Sturmhauptführer: 1 December 1931
* SS-Sturmbannführer: 25 December 1931
* SS-Standartenführer: 29 July 1932
* SS-Oberführer: 21 March 1933
* SS-Brigadeführer: 9 November 1933
* SS-Gruppenführer: 30 June 1934
* SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Ordnungspolizei/Polizei: 27 September 1941
=Service History=
* July 1931: Appointed as an SS member under SS Number 10120
* August 1931: Appointed as SS officer and tasked with forming the SS Security Service
* July 1932: Founds the ''Sicherheitsdienst''
* June 1934: Appointed Commander of the ''Sicherheitspolizei''
* September 1939: Founder and first Commander of the ''RSHA/Reichssicherheitshauptamt''
* September 1941: Appointed as Deputy Reichsprotector of Bohemia and Moravia
* January 1942: Chairman of the Wannsee Conference
* May 1942: Attacked by British supported Czech partisans in Prague
* June 1942: Dies from wounds received in partisan attack
=Notable decorations=
* German Order (Posthumous)
* Blood Order (Posthumous)
* Golden Nazi Party Badge
* Iron Cross (First and Second Classes)
* Aviator Badge/Luftwaffe Pilot's Badge
* Luftwaffe Reconnaissance Flying Clasp
* Danzig Cross (First Class)
* Anschluss Medal
* Sudentenland Medal with Prague Castle Bar
* Memel Medal
* Olympic Games Decoration (First Class)
* Social Welfare Decoration (First Class)
* NSDAP Long Service Ribbon for 10 years service
* Police Service Ribbon for 18 years service
=Additional service=
Reinhard Heydrich also served as Reserve Hauptmann in the Luftwaffe. He flew combat missions in Poland, France, and Russia before being forbidden to fly by Adolf Hitler as it was realized that Heydrich's capture as a POW would be a major security breach to Germany.
A historical irony to Heydrich's death is that he died on the same day as the Battle of Midway, a key turning point in World War II.
Fiction
The events of the Wannsee conference are recreated in the 1984 TV Movie ''Wannseekonferenz'' (''The Wannsee Conference'')http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088377/], with Kenneth Branagh playing Reinhard Heydrich. The Conference was also the subject of a 1992 English language documentary film entitled ''The Wannsee Conference'' directed by Dutch director Willy Lindwer [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0393959/].
The plot to kill Heydrich is central to the plot of the 1998 novel ''As Time Goes By'', a sequel to the movie ''Casablanca (movie)/Casablanca'', written by Michael Walsh. (ISBN 0446519006). The assassination itself has been dramatised in the 1943 Fritz Lang film ''Hangmen Also Die'' (written by Bertolt Brecht) http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0035966].
Reference
''The Killing of Reinhard Heydrich: The SS "Butcher of Prague"'', by Callum McDonald. ISBN 0306808609
''Assassination : operation Anthropoid 1941-1942'', by Michael Burian. Prague: Avis, 2002.
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fr:Reinhard Heydrich
it:Reinhard Heydrich
he:ריינהרד היידריך
nl:Reinhard Heydrich
ja:ラインハルト・ハイドリヒ
pl:Reinhard Heydrich
fi:Reinhard Heydrich
sv:Reinhard Heydrich
Tag: 1904 births/Heydrich, Reinhard
Tag: 1942 deaths/Heydrich, Reinhard
Tag: Nazi leaders/Heydrich, Reinhard
Tag: German World War II people/Heydrich, Reinhard
Tag: Law enforcement in Germany/Heydrich, Reinhard
Tag: SS/Heydrich
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