The Killing of Reinhard Heydrich
The SS 'Butcher of Prague'
by Callum MacDonald
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appears in About Germany, History, and Nonfiction.
If anyone warranted assassination during World War II, the man to know was Reinhard Heydrich (1904?1942)?chief of the security police, rabid antiSemite, architect of the Final Solution, ruthless overlord of Nazioccupied Czechoslovakia, and Hitler's most likely successor. In 1941, at the height of the Nazi's seeming invincibility, the Czech govern...
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appears in About Germany, History, and Nonfiction.
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