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Heydrich and was
The infamous Wansee Conference called by Heydrich in January 1942, to organize the material and technical means to put to death the eleven million Jews spread throughout the nations of Europe, was attended by representatives of major organs of the German state, including the Reich Minister of the Interior, the State Secretary in charge of the Four Year Plan, the Reich Minister of Justice, the Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs.
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.
The SiPo was placed under the direct command of Reinhard Heydrich who was already chief of the Nazi Party's intelligence service, the Sicherheitsdienst ( SD ).
In 1942 Ernst Kaltenbrunner became the RSHA chief after Heydrich was assassinated in Prague.
He was known to have good organisational skills and for selecting highly competent subordinates, such as Reinhard Heydrich in 1931.
In 1931 he appointed Reinhard Heydrich chief of the new ' Ic Service ' ( intelligence service ), which was renamed the Sicherheitsdienst ( SD: Security Service ) in 1932.
Thereafter, Himmler and Heydrich took over the political police of state after state ; soon only Prussia was controlled by Göring.
This appointment strengthened the collaboration between Himmler and Heydrich, and Himmler was proud to have SS control over a state.
In June 1942, Heydrich was assassinated in Prague in an operation led by Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš, members of Czechoslovakia's army-in-exile who had been trained by the British Special Operations Executive.
He told Heydrich that he was concerned for the mental health of the SS men.
Heydrich was born in 1904 in Halle an der Saale to composer and opera singer Richard Bruno Heydrich and his wife Elisabeth Anna Maria Amalia Krantz, a Roman Catholic.
Heydrich was born into a family of social standing and substantial financial means.
The Heydrich household was strict.
Heydrich was very intelligent and excelled in his schoolwork — especially in science — at the " Reformgymnasium ".
Nazi Gauleiter Rudolf Jordan also claimed that Heydrich was not a pure " Aryan ".
Nazi official and " race expert " Achim Gercke concluded that Heydrich was a pure Aryan.
When the skirmishes ended, Heydrich was part of the force assigned to protect private property.
Heydrich was devastated by the dismissal and found himself without prospects for a career.
Acting on the advice of his associate Karl von Eberstein, who was von Osten's friend, Himmler interviewed Heydrich.
In just over fifteen months, Heydrich had surpassed his former naval rank and was making what was considered a " comfortable " salary.

Heydrich and attacked
After the plans were outlined at the Wannsee conference in January 1942, Heydrich was attacked by British-trained Czechoslovak agents on 27 May 1942 ; he died of his injuries eight days later.

Heydrich and Prague
Members of a swelling resistance were shot, earning Heydrich the nickname " the Butcher of Prague ".
* 1942 – World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is assassinated in Prague.
Upon his arrival in Prague, Heydrich sought to eliminate opposition to the Nazi occupation by suppressing Czech culture and deporting and executing members of the Czech resistance.
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
Heydrich ( left ) with Karl Hermann Frank at Prague Castle in 1941
Heydrich came to Prague to enforce policy, fight resistance to the Nazi regime, and keep up production quotas of Czech motors and arms that were " extremely important to the German war effort ".
Heydrich started his rule by terrorising the population: within three days of his arrival in Prague, 92 people were executed.
Conditions in Prague and the rest of the Czech lands were relatively peaceful under Heydrich, and industrial output increased.
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.
* May 27 – WWII – Operation Anthropoid: Czech paratroopers attempt to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich in Prague.
The assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague, organized by MI6, was done in part to preserve Canaris in his important position.
On the morning of 27 May 1942, Heydrich was being driven from his country villa at Panenské Břežany to his office at Prague Castle.
On 4 June Heydrich died in Bulovka Hospital in Prague from septicaemia caused by pieces of upholstery entering his body when the bomb exploded.
Heydrich was assassinated by Czech partisans in Prague in 1942.
* Operation Anthropoid-assassination of top Nazi Reinhard Heydrich in Prague
In May 1942 Heydrich was killed in Prague by Czech agents sent from London.
Heydrich came to Prague to " strengthen policy, carry out counter measures against resistance " and keep up production quotas of Czech motor and arms that were " extremely important to the German war effort ".
Due to his brutal efficiency, Heydrich was nicknamed the Butcher of Prague, the Blond Beast, and the Hangman.
The second plan was to kill him on the road in the forest on the way from Heydrich ’ s seat to Prague.
They planned to pull a cable across the road that would stop Heydrich ’ s car but, after waiting several hours, their commander, Lt. Adolf Opálka ( from the group Out Distance ), came to bring them back to Prague.
The third plan was to kill Heydrich in Prague.

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