A hawk-faced Aryan poster boy who fended off false rumors of Jewish ancestry, Reinhard Heydrich oversaw the Gestapo, played a key role in formulating the Final Solution, and organized the ...

Now comes a new biography of Reinhard Heydrich, “The Hangman and His Wife,” by Nancy Dougherty. Not a fervent believer (he only became a member of the Nazi Party in 1931, ...

The May 1942 assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Germany's Reichsprotektor for Bohemia and Moravia, altered the course of World War II. Anthropoid (in theaters August 12) tells the story of the ...

Grave of Top Nazi Leader and Auschwitz Architect Reinhard Heydrich Mysteriously Prized Open. Published Dec 16, 2019 at 9:59 AM EST Updated Dec 16, 2019 at 11:32 AM EST. By .

Himmler's Right Hand Reinhard Heydrich in 1940. ILLUSTRATION: Corbis Bruno Heydrich, a German opera composer and director of a music school, once expelled a student.

Sensing Hitler’s prime interest in the “final solution of the Jewish question,” Heydrich trained himself to become a foremost expert. As Gerwarth skillfully explains, while Hitler, Himmler ...