The WFYS also paid tribute to the Czech cities of Lidice and Ležáky, which were eradicated as a response to the assassination of the German governor Reinhard Heydrich, nicknamed The Butcher of Prague.
When Gauleiter Rudolf Jordan claimed that Reinhard Heydrich had Jewish ancestry and therefore could not have been Aryan, it was Gercke who investigated the issue and concluded that Heydrich was a pure Aryan with no Jewish ancestry.
During the Second World War from 1940 to 1945 Addington House was the residence of the Cigna, Moravec, Strankmuller and Tauer families of the Czechoslovak Military Intelligence staff under Colonel František Moravec, who planned the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.
The World War II story depicts events before and after the assassination of top German leader Reinhard Heydrich in Prague (Operation Anthropoid).
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On September 27, 1941, Reinhard Heydrich, one of the most feared top officials of the Nazi Party, an architect of the Holocaust and Hitler's possible successor, is appointed "Reichsprotektor" of Bohemia and Moravia.
Several American officers received the award, such as George S. Patton, and the decoration was also bestowed to national heroes, such as the men who had assassinated Reinhard Heydrich.
The current Slovak name of the village was given by the authorities in 1948 after Jozef Gabčík, a Slovak soldier involved in Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich Deputy Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia.
In November 1940 he succeeded Walter Stahlecker in the dual command of the SD and Sicherheitspolizei for Norway and Oslo, reporting to Reinhard Heydrich and Ernst Kaltenbrunner in Berlin and Josef Terboven in Norway.
The town was renamed on 31 October 1943, from Potrero, to commemorate the town of Lidice in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (The Czech Republic today) which was razed to the ground by the SS on June 10, 1942 as a retribution for the assassination or Reinhard Heydrich.
Following the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in 1942, Wolff fell out with Himmler and was replaced by SS-Obergruppenführer Maximilian von Herff who served as its head until the end of the war.
In January 1924, Berlin departed German waters for an extended overseas cruise, which was the first time a German warship had done so since the end of World War I. While on the cruise, Canaris met a naval cadet by the name of Reinhard Heydrich, who went on to become a close friend and eventual architect of The Holocaust.
Obergruppenfuehrer Reinhard Heydrich forces Gunther to look for a serial sex murderer who is killing blonde Aryan teenage girls in Berlin and making fools of the police.
The bungalow called "Funny Neuk" was home to the Czechoslovak military intelligence radio station from 1940 to 1942, and was used for communications concerning the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.
Reinhard Heydrich | Ulrike Reinhard | Reinhard Selten | Reinhard Goebel | Reinhard Flatischler | Johan Reinhard | Reinhard Sebastian Zimmermann | Reinhard Mey | Reinhard Marx | Reinhard Haupenthal | Reinhard Hardegen | Reinhard Gehlen | Wilhelm Reinhard | ''The Gardens of Adonis'' (1888) by John Reinhard Weguelin | Steve Reinhard | Reinhard Wilhelm | Reinhard Scheer | Reinhard Peters | Reinhard Opitz | Reinhard Maack | Reinhard Libuda | Reinhard Kienast | Reinhard Keiser | Reinhard Erös | Peter Reinhard Hansen |
by John Reinhard Weguelin
On January 20, 1942, Reinhard Heydrich announced the decision to murder the Jews of Europe at the Wannsee Conference, which took place in the Wannsee Villa.
The Czech village of Lidice, as part of the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, was on orders from Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler completely destroyed by German forces in reprisal for the assassination of Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich in the late spring of 1942.
He is particularly known for his biographies of Georg Elser who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1939; Reinhard Heydrich who was one of the main architects of the Holocaust; and Joseph Süß Oppenheimer who was executed in 1738 and in 1940 was the subject of a notorious Nazi anti-semitic propaganda film, Jud Süß.
Friedrich Karl Freiherr von Eberstein (14 January 1894 in Halle – 10 February 1979 in Tegernsee) was a member of the German nobility, early member of the Nazi Party, the SA, and the SS (introducing Reinhard Heydrich to Heinrich Himmler in July 1931).
It is probably best known from archival footage of high-ranking Axis officials before and during World War II, including Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring and Reinhard Heydrich.