![]() ![]() Heydrich, who led the Nazi Protection Squadron, or SS, and the Gestapo, also sent the telegraph giving the orders that precipitated 1938's Kristallnacht pogrom against Jews in Germany.Īs the lead planner of Hitler's Final Solution, Heydrich chaired the Wannsee Conference - where details about the murder of millions of Jews across Nazi-occupied Europe was debated and toasted with cognac. Given such epithets, it stands to reason that Reinhard Heydrich's record is one of reprehensible brutality. He was described by Adolf Hitler as "the Man with the Iron Heart." Other names attributed to him include "the Butcher," "the Hangman" and "Himmler's Evil Genius." ![]()
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