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Heydrich wird Leiter der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD für das gesamte Deutsche Reich. Die politische Polizei der Länder wird reichseinheitlich zur Geheimen Staatspolizei (Gestapo) unter seiner Führung zusammengefasst. Als Organisator baut er ein Kontroll- und Unterdrückungssystem auf und wendet Verfolgung, Einschüchterung und Erpressung ...
Vor einem Tag · Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (/ ˈ h aɪ d r ɪ k / HEYE-drik; German: [ˈʁaɪnhaʁt ˈtʁɪstan ˈʔɔʏɡn̩ ˈhaɪdʁɪç] i; 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 ...
- 1922–1942
- Nazi Party
- Family History
- Creating A Nazi Party Intelligence Service
- Formation of The Reich Security Main Office
- Suppressing Internal and External Enemies of The State
- Plans For A "Solution to The Jewish Question"
- Wannsee Conference
- Resistance and Reprisal in Bohemia and Moravia
- Assassination
- Operation "Reinhard"
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 Heydric...
Heydrich was introduced to SS chief Heinrich Himmler in Munich by a family friend. At that time, Himmler was seeking to create an internal intelligence service for the Nazi Party. Himmler was so impressed by Heydrich's proposals that he brought him into the SS in August 1931 and tasked him with developing the Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst;SD)...
When Himmler was appointed commander of the Bavarian political police detective force on April 1, 1933, he appointed Heydrich his deputy. Himmler and Heydrich centralized the political police departments of Germany into the Gestapo. When Himmler's SS became independent of the SA after the purge of SA chief of staff Ernst Röhm and the top SA leaders...
Under Heydrich, the Security Police and the SD was the primary agency responsible for intelligence analysis and executive measures in suppressing numerous internal and external enemies of the Nazi state. The SD established intelligence departments to study the alleged long-term plots of each of the Reich's enemies: 1. “World Jewry” 2. “Marxists” (C...
Impressed by Heydrich's dynamic leadership in the competition with officials of the Nazi Party and the German state for the leading role in “solving” the “Jewish Question,” Hermann Göring, the recognized deputy of Hitler in this matter, authorized Heydrich on January 24, 1939, to develop plans for a “solution to the Jewish Question” in the German R...
On January 20, 1942, Heydrich invited key officials from various Reich Ministries to a conference at a villa on the Wannsee, on the southwestern edge of Berlin. The ministries included the Foreign Ministry, the Ministries of Justice and the Interior, and civilian occupation officials in the Government General and the Reich Commissariat Ostland. At ...
After the invasion of the Soviet Union spurred a previously dormant communist resistance movement in Bohemia and Moravia into acts of sabotage, Hitler dismissed Reich Protector Konstantin von Neurath and appointed Heydrich acting Reich Protector in September 1941. Heydrich first ordered a narrow wave of terror targeting real and perceived leaders o...
Heydrich was so confident that his pacification program had succeeded that he flagrantly disregarded measures for his own security and traveled around Prague in an open vehicle. On May 27, 1942, as he traveled on a familiar route to the airport to fly to Hitler's headquarters, two Czech parachute agents succeeded in rolling a hand grenade under Hey...
The RSHA that Heydrich created and the “Final Solution” policy that he initiated would be dreadfully effective after his death. The Germans and their Axis partners killed six million Jews between 1941 and 1945. SS and police leaders in occupied Poland would later rename an operation in “honor” of this most ruthless practitioner of mass murder: Oper...
Vor 3 Tagen · Der Holocaust [ ˈhoːlokaʊ̯st, holoˈkaʊ̯st] (englisch, aus altgriechisch ὁλόκαυστος holókaustos, deutsch ‚vollständig verbrannt‘) oder die Schoa (auch Schoah, Shoah oder Shoa; hebräisch הַשּׁוֹאָה haSchoa für „die Katastrophe“, „das große Unglück/Unheil“) war der nationalsozialistische Völkermord an 5,6 bis 6,3 Millionen europäischen Juden währen...
18. Sept. 2023 · Reinhard Heydrich von Robert Gerwarth. Bis zu seinem gewaltsamen Tod im Sommer 1942 hatte Reinhard Heydrich unter den Nationalsozialisten eine beispiellose Karriere gemacht. Als Leiter des Reichssicherheitshauptamts, stellvertretender Reichsprotektor von Böhmen und Mähren sowie Organisator der »Endlösung der Judenfrage« war er ...
4. Nov. 2019 · In brief: Reinhard Heydrich (1904-1942) was second in importance to Heinrich Himmler in the Nazi SS organization. Nicknamed "The Blond Beast" by the Nazis, and "Hangman Heydrich" by others, Heydrich had insatiable greed for power and was a cold, calculating manipulator without human compassion who was the leading planner of Hitler's Final Solution in which the Nazis attempted to exterminate ...
