R.I.P.

Reinhard Heydrich

1904 – 1942

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The Butcher of Prague

SS general who chaired the Wannsee Conference that formalized the Final Solution. Headed the Reich Security Main Office overseeing the Gestapo, SD, and Einsatzgruppen. Architect of the Holocaust's bureaucratic framework.

Why They're Here

Called 'the man with the iron heart' by Hitler. Heydrich designed the administrative framework for genocide and chaired the conference that sealed the fate of European Jewry.