Heydrich: The Face of Evil (Dederichs Mario R.)(Paperback)

Reinhard Heydrich was one of Hitler's most evil henchmen. Praised by the Fhrer as being the man with an iron heart, Heydrich became one of the key architects of the Third Reich's horrific genocide. After his 1942 assassination, the murder of more than two million people at Belzec, Sobibor and Treblina was codenamed 'Action Reinhard'.
Heydrich joined the Nazi Party in 1931, and rose quickly through the ranks of the SS. By the age of twenty-nine he had become an SS Brigadier General, and his ruthless ambition led many senior Nazis to believe that he was the natural successor to Hitler. It was Heydrich's initiative to create the Einsatzgruppen, paramilitary units which were established before Operation Barbarossa to murder Jews and political operatives of the Communist party. In 1941, Heydrich was made Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. Supremely confident of his authority, he
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