Reinhard Heydrich
German Nazi SS and Gestapo police official and main architect of the Holocaust Genocide (1904-1942) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (born ; 7 March 1904 ; Halle an der Salle,Prussia, Germany- died ; 4 June 1942 ; Prague,Nazi-German Occupied Czechoslovakia). He was a high-ranking German Nazi SS-Gestapo officer before and during World War 2.
Heydrich was a former navy officer in the German Navy of the Reichswehr from 1922-1931 . He later became the most and feared Nazi Officer in the SS Paramilitary and the Gestapo Secret Police in Germany. His enemies in Czechoslovakia gave him various nicknames: (The Hangman, The Butcher Of Prague, The Blond Beast, Himmler's Evil Genius, Young Evil God Of Death). Adolf Hitler called him "The Man With The Iron Heart".
He executed Jewish people and children. He ordered the Waffen-SS and the Einsatzgruppen to execute people in Prague,Czechoslovakia (Today : Czech Republic). Reinhard Heydrich wore black in the SS and the Gestapo from 1933-1939. He wore grey from 1938-1942 and feldgrau (gray-green from 1941-1942. He also wore blue in the Wehrmacht’s Luftwaffe Air Force from 1935-1941. He also ordered Adolf Eichmann to organise transport during the Holocaust.