Reinhard Heydrich died and went to hell. "Hello," said the Devil. "We've been getting quite a few of you Gestapo men lately. I understand there will be more, too, before long. But ...

Two hours after its ultimatum to the Czechs had expired, Heinrich Himmler's Gestapo unbagged a weasel that smelled to heaven. The assassins of Reinhard Heydrich, announced the Gestapo, had been ...

Heydrich served under SS leader Heinrich Himmler, leading the Reich Main Security Office, which controlled the Gestapo and Nazi security services.He played a key role in planning the Holocaust ...

Heydrich, nicknamed "the Butcher", headed the Reich Main Security Office under SS leader Heinrich Himmler. Adolf Hitler called Heydrich "the Man with the Iron Heart".

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 ...

The Hangman and His Wife: The Life and Death of Reinhard Heydrich Nancy Dougherty. Knopf, $35 (704p) ISBN 978-0-394-54341-3.

Heydrich played a key role as co-ordinator of Kristallnacht, or “the night of broken glass,” the attack on Jews in Nazi-led Germany in November 1938 which marked the start of the Holocaust.