Heydrich: The Face of Evil

Heydrich: The Face of Evil

An extraordinary portrait of Hitlerâ€™s most brutal henchmanâ€•now in paperback.

Tracks his full career, from the Navy to his appointment as Reichs-Protektor of Bohemia and Moravia

The complete story of his assassination and its horrific aftermath

Reinhard Heydrich was one of Hitlerâ€™s most evil henchmen. Praised by the FÃ¼hrer as being â€œthe man with an iron heartâ€, 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 Treblinka was codenamed â€œAktion Reinhardâ€.

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 Heydrichâ€™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 Reichs- Protektor of Bohemia and Moravia. Supremely confident of his authority, he often drove alone through the province in his open-top, dark green Mercedes. British-trained Czech partisans took advantage of this gesture, and in 1942 carried out a daring assassination attempt. Heydrich was mortally wounded in the ambush and died a week later in hospital. The reprisals that followed were brutal: more than 15,000 Czechs were murdered and the town of Lidice was razed to the ground.

In this critically acclaimed biography, which includes interviews with Heydrichâ€™s surviving family, the author creates a complete portrait of pure evil.

Mario Dederichs was Bonn, Moscow and Washington correspondent for Stern magazine. Teja Fiedler, who has written a Preface to this edition, was a long-standing colleague and friend of the author, and is a correspondent at Stern magazine.

REVIEWS

â€œâ€¦a compelling history of Heydrich, providing a disturbing glimpse into a Holocaust architect, his assassination, and the resultant reprisals.â€
Internet Modeler, 11/2009
Country USA
Brand Casemate
Manufacturer Casemate
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781935149125
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Casemate
Manufacturer	Casemate
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781935149125
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Heydrich: The Face of Evil

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