He travelled to Hitler ’ s headquarters on the eastern front, meeting both Hitler and Reinhard Heydrich to lobby for his demands.

On 10 October 1941 Heydrich was the senior officer at a meeting in Prague that discussed deporting 50, 000 Jewish people from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to ghettos in Minsk and Riga.

On 27 May 1942 Heydrich was scheduled to attend a meeting with Hitler in Berlin.

In the course of the meeting, Heydrich presented a plan, presumably approved by Adolf Hitler, for the deportation of the Jewish population of Europe and French North Africa ( Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia ) to German-occupied areas in eastern Europe, and the use of the Jews fit for labour on road-building projects, in the course of which they would eventually die according to the text of the Wannsee Protocol, the surviving remnant to be annihilated after completion of the projects.

On 29 November, Heydrich sent invitations for a meeting to be held on 9 December at the headquarters of the International Criminal Police Commission ( the forerunner of Interpol, of which Heydrich at the time served as President ) at 16 Am Kleinen Wannsee ( in the comfortable lakeside suburb of Wannsee on the western edge of Berlin ).

When Hans Frank, head of the General Government in occupied Poland, heard of the meeting, he demanded to be represented and Heydrich agreed.

Some meeting invitees were involved in these preparations, so Heydrich postponed the meeting without rescheduling it on 8 December.

In early January 1942, Heydrich sent new invitations to a meeting to be held on 20 January.

* Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler's right hand man in the SS, who begins by explaining the purpose of the meeting.

Kritzinger interrupts at several points to opine that the meeting is pointless, given that the Jewish Question had previously been settled, but Heydrich promises to revisit his concerns.

When the meeting reconvenes, Heydrich steers the discussion in the direction of wholesale extermination using gas chambers.

Heydrich then recalls and concludes the meeting, giving clear directives that the SS are to be obeyed in all matters relating to the elimination of the Jews.

Reinhard Heydrich is viewed as the mastermind behind the SS security forces and held the title of Chef des Sicherheitspolizei und SD until 27 September 1939 when he became the overall supreme commander of the Reich Main Security Office.

The rank of Obergruppenführer was held by some of the most notorious figures in the SS, with Reinhard Heydrich and Ernst Kaltenbrunner both bearing the rank.

About 520, 000 were approved, among them Henlein himself, who also joined the SS and officially was appointed Gauleiter in 1939, an office he held until 1945, though largely disempowered by Reich Protector Heydrich.

Differences of opinion with Reinhard Heydrich motivated him to move to the Auswärtiges Amt ( Foreign Office ), after which he held posts in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia under SS-Brigadeführer Karl Hermann Frank and, in 1940, in Norway, where he was promoted to SS-Oberführer.

Reinhard Heydrich was killed after an attack by British trained Czechoslovak soldiers on behalf of the Czechoslovak government in exile in Operation Anthropoid, and knowledge from decoded transmissions allowed the U. S. to carry out a targeted attack, killing Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto while he was travelling by plane.

In a February 26, 1942, letter to German diplomat Martin Luther ( diplomat ) | Martin Luther, Reinhard Heydrich follows up on the Wannsee Conference by asking Luther for administrative assistance in the implementation of the " Endlösung der Judenfrage " ( Final Solution to the Jewish Question ).

With Frick's support, Himmler ( pushed on by his right hand man, Reinhard Heydrich ) took over the political police of state after state.

Heydrich, named chief of the Gestapo by Himmler on 22 April 1934, also continued as head of the Sicherheitsdienst ( SD: Security Service ").

Heydrich, named chief of the Gestapo by Himmler on 22 April 1934, also continued as head of the SD.

He sent Göring to Berlin on 29 June, to meet with Himmler and Heydrich to plan the action.

There they could be worked into extinction in accordance with the plan agreed on at the Wannsee Conference convened by Heydrich in January.

Heydrich was attacked in Prague on 27 May 1942 by a British-trained team of Czech and Slovak soldiers who had been sent by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile to kill him in an operation code named Operation Anthropoid.

Heydrich and his wife Lina Heydrich | Lina attending a concert in Waldstein Palace in Prague, 26 May 1942, the day before the assassination attempt that led to his death on 4 June 1942

Acting on the advice of his associate Karl von Eberstein, who was von Osten's friend, Himmler interviewed Heydrich.

Himmler named Heydrich to head the Gestapo on 22 April 1934.

Beginning in April 1934, and at Hitler's request, Heydrich and Himmler began building a dossier on Sturmabteilung ( SA ) leader Ernst Röhm in an effort to remove him as a rival for party leadership.

The title of " Chef der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD " ( Chief of Security Police and SD ) or CSSD was conferred on Heydrich on 1 October.

Heydrich became the President of Interpol ( then under Nazi control ) on 24 August 1940, and its headquarters were transferred to Berlin.

Heydrich received Hitler's approval to act on the information immediately.

On 27 September 1941 Heydrich was appointed Deputy Reich Protector of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ( the part of Czechoslovakia incorporated into the Reich on 15 March 1939 ) and assumed control of the territory.

The Reich Protector, Konstantin von Neurath, remained the territory's titular head, but was sent on " leave " because Hitler, Himmler, and Heydrich felt his " soft approach " to the Czechs had promoted anti-German sentiment and encouraged anti-German resistance via strikes and sabotage.

Heydrich was one of the organisers of Kristallnacht, a pogrom against Jews throughout Germany on the night of 9 – 10 November 1938.

On 21 September 1939 Heydrich sent out a teleprinter message on the " Jewish question in the occupied territory " to the chiefs of all Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police.

Instead of ordering his driver to speed away, Heydrich called his car to a halt and attempted to take on the attackers.

Heydrich was first placed in the driver's cab, but after complaining that the truck's movement was causing him pain, he was placed in the back of the truck, on his stomach, and taken to the emergency room at Na Bulovce Hospital.

On 20 January 1942 Heydrich chaired the Wannsee Conference, at which he presented to the heads of a number of German Government departments a plan for the deportation and transporting of 11 million Jewish people from every country in Europe, to be worked to death or killed outright in extermination camps.

On April 20, 1934, ( as a prelude to the Night of the Long Knives ), Göring transferred the Gestapo to Himmler, who was also named chief of all German police forces outside Prussia ; two days later Himmler named Heydrich the head of the Gestapo.

On 20 January 1942, Reinhard Heydrich, deputed to find a " final solution " to the " Jewish problem ", chaired the Wannsee Conference at which all the Jews resident in Europe and North Africa were earmarked for extermination.

At the Wannsee Conference on 20 January 1942, Reinhard Heydrich and various leading state officials discussed a more sweeping plan for killing Jews in Europe.