Reinhard Heidrich is a senior Nazi official, and it is his responsibility to plan what Hitler calls the " final solution ", namely: the framework for extermination of 6 million Jews in Europe.
In that crazy era, his role in genocide earned him the title of "Protector of the Empire", but in fact, in the eyes of the outside world, he was called "Hitler's executioner."
So, how did such an anti-human executioner planned the "genocide" against the Jews? What will happen to him in the end?
Early life
Reinhard Heidrich was born in 1904 in Halle, Saxony, Germany. The city is famous for its university and profound cultural heritage.
It was under the influence of this social atmosphere that his father sang opera and worked in the Conservatory of Music, and Heidrich grew up playing violin and once developed a strong interest in chamber music . Such childhood dreams also form a sharp and strange contrast with his later known behavior for his cruelty. When the outbreak of World War I , Heidrich was too young to participate, but he was still appointed as a German naval officer in the 1920s. Until later, in 1931, when the military court ruling that he had done something shameful to a young woman, his career came to an end in this shameful way.
After that, when German citizens were unemployed due to the economic crisis, Heidrich was released into civilian life and came into contact with Hitler and his Nazi Party.
Although Heidrich has always been skeptical of the Nazi movement, seeing Adolf Hitler and his followers as street mobs, he was forced to make a living and seeking to find work through the Nazi Party.
And Heidrich also exaggerated his experience in the German army, making Hitler's SS captain Himmler believe that he was an intelligence officer, so he hired him specifically and gave him a task - to create a Nazi intelligence department.
Rise of the Nazi hierarchy
Because of being added with Hitler's eyes, Heidrich was able to rise rapidly in the Nazi ranks. Of course, his story was not smooth sailing, just like once, someone spread rumors that there was a Jewish ancestor in his family, which almost ended his "career" within the Nazi party.
Fortunately, he finally convinced Hitler and his immediate boss Himmler to prove that the claims about his so-called Jewish grandparents were wrong.
resolved the rumor that Heidrich, when the Nazis controlled Germany in early 1933, was responsible for arresting those who opposed them, and formed a situation where too many political enemies were held, that the prison space was insufficient to hold prisoners.
Then, in order to deal with this situation, an abandoned arms factory in Bavaria was rebuilt and used to resettle this group of people... This is the predecessor of the infamous concentration camp in the future.
Massive incarceration by political enemies is no secret. In July 1933, a reporter from the New York Times visited Dachau , and the Nazi authorities called it the "education camp" of about 2,000 political opponents.
Here, the prisoners were forced to work cruelly for a long time and could only be released after being considered to have completely accepted the Nazi ideology. Therefore, from the results alone, Hitler believed that the concentration camp system was undoubtedly successful, and Heidrich was ordered to expand and opened other concentration camps.
1934, as Hitler's knife, Himmler and Heidrich began to take action to eliminate the Nazi party, posing a threat to Hitler's power.
This massacre was later called "Night of the Long Sword", Rom was murdered, and other Nazis who may have as many as 200 people were killed, and Hedrich officially became a confidant of Hitler because he was one of the leaders of this bloody purge.
After the cleaning, Himmler appointed Heidrich as the head of the Central Police Force, which combined Nazi Gestapo with police detective forces.
With this as the background, throughout the late 1930s, Heidrich ruled a huge police network, strategically deployed spies and whistleblowers in German society, so that in the end, every German policeman became part of Heidrich's organization.
Organized "extinction"
With the concentration of the Nazi Party's power, Germany's persecution of Jews began to accelerate. Among them, Heidrich played an extremely important and extremely disgraceful role in the organized anti-Semitism .
In November 1938, he organized and participated in the first large-scale persecution against the Jews, the famous " Crystal Night ". It was on this night that his Gestapo and SS arrested about 30,000 Jewish men and detained them in concentration camps.
Wait until the time when German invaded Polish in 1939, Heidrich also played an important role in rounding up Polish Jews. His police force entered the town after the army and ordered local Jews to gather. In typical operations, Jews were driven out of the town, forced to line up next to the newly dug ditch, and then shot.
The body was thrown into a ditch and flattened with a bulldozer, and then this terrible procedure was repeated in one town after another in Poland.
In June 1941, Heidrich's evil plan was devastatingly exploited when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. He assigned special forces, rangers, and specific tasks of killing Jews and Soviet officials, because Hedrich believed that Soviet Jews were the backbone of the communist state, and he sought to massacre all Jews in the Soviet Union.
As Hitler's deputy, Hermann Goring assigned Heidrich to develop a plan to deal with all European Jews, and it was against this background that Heidrich developed an ambitious Holocaust plan.
On January 20, 1942, Heidrich convened a meeting of senior Nazi officials in a luxurious villa on the bank of Wanhu, a resort in the suburbs of Berlin.
As for the purpose of this gathering, Heidrich explained his plan in detail, and all components of the Nazi state worked together to achieve the final solution, namely, to eliminate all Jews in Europe. Hitler had approved this project, and Heidrich informed the participants of the matter.
html For more than 0 years, people have been arguing about the importance of,000 Lake Conference , and the mass murder of Jews had begun, and by the beginning of 1942, some concentration camps had been used as death factories. So, this meeting is not necessary to start the final solution, but it is reported that Heidrich wants to ensure that Nazi leaders and key figures in civilian government can understand their role in the final solution and will participate as ordered.
That's it, in early 1942, the pace of killing accelerated, and it was at the Wanhu Conference that Heidrich seemed to have successfully eliminated all the obstacles to his Holocaust plan.
In the spring of 1942, Heidrich felt extremely strong. In Germany, he was called the "protector of the empire", while outside media called him "Hitler's executioner". After establishing his headquarters in Prague, Czechoslovakia, he supervised the comforting work of the people of Czech Republic with typical cruel means.
ending
Hedrich's arrogance was his failure. He began to walk around in a convertible station wagon without an escort from the army. The Czech Resistance Movement noticed this habit, so in May 1942, the Resistance Commando, trained by the British Secret Service, was airborne to Czechoslovakian .
On May 27, 1942, the assassin team attacked Heidrich's car heading to the airport outside Prague. They successfully threw the bomb under the car as the car passed by. As the bomb exploded, Heidrich's spine was seriously injured by shrapnel and eventually died on June 4, 1942.
Heidrich's death became international news, and in response, the Nazi leaders in Berlin held a grand funeral attended by Hitler and other Nazi leaders.After
, the Nazis retaliated against Czech civilians, such as Lidize village near the ambush site. All men were killed and the village was razed to the ground by explosive . The Nazis deleted the name of the village from the future map.
Outside newspapers recorded the retaliatory killings of civilians helped propaganda by the Nazis, and hundreds of civilians were killed in retaliatory attacks, which may in turn prevented the assassination attempts of other high-ranking Nazis by the Allied intelligence agencies.
words all for this, and it is true that Reinhard Heidrich died, but he left a terrible legacy to the world - because his plan for the final solution was implemented.
Although the end of World War II ultimately prevented his ultimate goal of "destroying all Jews in Europe", more than 6 million Jews were still killed in Nazi death camps before Berlin was conquered in 1945.
And his early death seemed to avoid him being tried in the post-war court...
