Search Results: Reinhard Heydrich

Reinhard Heydrich (1904-1942) was a lieutenant-general in the Nazi SS organisation, Gestapo chief, and head of Reich security. A favourite of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Heydrich controlled all police activity in the Third Reich and was instrumental...

A 1940 photograph of the leading Nazi Reinhard Heydrich (1904-42) who acted as the Nazi leader in Bohemia and Moravia and headed the Nazi police services across the Third Reich. (German Federal Archives)

A 1934 photograph of the leading Nazi Reinhard Heydrich (1904-42) who headed the various Nazi criminal and secret police services across the Third Reich. (German Federal Archives)

The story of Operation Anthropoid during WW2 unfolds in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, where the Czech resistance planned a daring mission against Reinhard Heydrich, the high-ranking German officer infamously known as the 'Butcher...

The Gestapo was the secret political police organisation of Nazi Germany. Created in 1933, the Gestapo became one of the most feared instruments of state terror, its members having few or no legal restrictions to their actions. The Gestapo...

A May 1942 photograph showing the damaged car of Reinhard Heydrich (1904-42), a senior Nazi and leader in Bohemia and Moravia who was assassinated by the Czech resistance who threw a grenade at the vehicle in Prague. (German Federal Archives...

A June 1942 photograph showing the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) at the funeral in Berlin of Reinhard Heydrich (1904-42), a senior Nazi and leader in Bohemia and Moravia who was assassinated by the Czech resistance. (Imperial War Museums...

Einsatzgruppen ('deployment groups') were secret Nazi killing units, who systematically sought out and murdered civilians identified as enemies of the Third Reich. Operating without any legal restrictions in territories newly conquered by...

Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962), a lieutenant-colonel in the Nazi SS, was responsible for organising the transportation of Jewish people and other victims of Nazism to concentration, labour, and death camps. Eichmann played a key role in the Holocaust...

The Kristallnacht (Reichkristallnacht, 'Night of Broken Glass', or November Pogrom) was an attack on Jews and Jewish property across Germany and Austria on 9-10 November 1938. Orchestrated as part of a systematic and escalating persecution...