His name was Bruno Heydrich, and the pieces were from an opera he had written in 1895 called Amen. Set in a forest in central Germany, the work’s protagonist is called Reinhard, a heroic figure ...

HE MIGHT WELL have been the cruelest among the many cruel National Socialist leaders. He hated, with a nearly unparalleled passion, all Jews; Gypsies; homosexuals; the Catholic church, and ...

Reinhard Heydrich Biography The First In-depth Look at a Nazi 'God of Death' As the chair of the Wannsee Conference and head of the Reich Main Security Office, Reinhard Heydrich was the ...

Reinhard Heydrich died and went to hell. “Hello,” said the Devil. “We’ve been getting quite a few of you Gestapo men lately. I understand there will be more, too, before long. But you were ...

THE HANGMAN AND HIS WIFE: The Life and Death of Reinhard Heydrich, by Nancy Dougherty What is the fatal attraction they exert on us, the Nazis? We continue to read books and watch documentaries ...

In 1942, Reinhard Heydrich was considered the most dangerous man in Germany after Adolf Hitler himself. The Allied plot to assassinate him, masterminded in England and carried out in Prague ...

Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich, also known as The Hangman, was a high-ranking German Nazi official. He was SS Obergruppenführer and General der Polizei, chief of the Reich Main Security Office ...

His assassination caused the Nazis to unleash horrific reprisals that would see 1,700 men, women, and children killed, and increase the deportation of tens of thousands of Jews to the death camps.