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Reinhard Heydrich

Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich , also known as The Hangman, was a high-ranking German Nazi official.He was SS-Obergruppenführer and General der Polizei, chief of the Reich Main Security Office and Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia...

Timeline of Events

1941

7.31.1941

Holocaust: under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."

1942

5.27.1942

World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is assassinated in Prague.

5.28.1942

World War II: in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1,800 people.

6.10.1942

World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.