Reinhard Heydrich the Pursuit of Total Power by Günther Deschner(.PDF)
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Reinhard Heydrich, the Pursuit of Total Power by Günther Deschner
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Overview: Reinhard Heydrich was the most enigmatic of the prominent figures of the Third Reich. He played the violin so beautifully that his audiences were moved to tears—yet with one stroke of his pen he doomed thousands. Heydrich excelled at fencing and in the decathalon — yet all his life his voice sounded like that of an adolescent. At the peak of his career this most coldly evil of the Nazis held almost unlimited power over life and death throughout Germany and the occupied countries.
Having joined the Nazi Party almost accidentally, the cashiered naval officer’s rise in the heirarchy was meteoric. At 27 he became head of the SD; at 32 he was head of the Gestapo. In 1941 Hitler made him governor of Czechoslovakia, and Heydrich turned that restive Protectorate into a smoothly functioning arms factory for the Reich. That was one of the reasons the Czech government-in-exile decided to have him assassinated. In May 1942 two agents from London who had parachuted into the outskirts of Prague managed to wound Heydrich mortally by throwing a bomb at his car. This story doesn’t end with Heydrich’s death; it describes the consequences of his murder, including the hunting down of the two agents and the Nazis utter destruction of the villages of Lidice and Lezaky in relation.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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