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 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 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.

Stalin ordered one of his best NKVD agents, General Nikolai Skoblin, to pass Heydrich false information suggesting that Marshall Mikhail Tukhachevsky and other Soviet generals were plotting against Stalin.

Despite public displays of goodwill towards the populace, privately Heydrich left no illusions as to his eventual goal: " This entire area will one day be definitely German, and the Czechs have nothing to expect here ".

On 2 June, during a visit by Himmler, Heydrich reconciled himself to his fate by reciting a part of one of his father's operas:

Speaking with Himmler and Heydrich on 25 October, Hitler said, " Let no one say to me we cannot send them into the swamp.

* Reinhard Heydrich, one of the leading Nazis in World War II, was born in the town.

Eicke's reorganizations and the introduction of forced labour made the camps one of the SS's most powerful tools ; this earned him the enmity of Reinhard Heydrich, who had already unsuccessfully attempted to take control of the Dachau concentration camp in his position as chief of the SD.

Reward poster for Josef Valčík, one of the assassins of Reinhard Heydrich.

The success of the Operation Anthropoid — which resulted in the British backed assassination of one of Hitler's top henchmen, Reinhard Heydrich, by Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš on 27 May — influenced the Allies in this repudiation.

The assassination of Heydrich was one of the most significant moments in the history of the resistance in Czechoslovakia and is considered to be the strongest act of defiance throughout occupied Europe.

As Heydrich was one of the most important Nazi leaders, two large funeral ceremonies were conducted.

* Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš, Czechoslovak British-trained agents sent to assassinate one of the most important Nazis, Reinhard Heydrich, in 1942 as part of Operation Anthropoid.

Streckenbach was chosen in 1933 to run the Hamburg political police after it had been swallowed by the SS as Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich took over one state police force after another in their plan to control the national police of Nazi Germany.

Prior to 1942, the SS collar insignia for the rank of Obergruppenfuhrer consisted of three oak-leaves and one pip, as Heydrich wore in the movie.

Jan Kubiš ( 24 June 1913 – 18 June 1942 ) was a Czech soldier, one of a team of Czechoslovak British-trained paratroopers sent to assassinate acting Reichsprotektor ( Reich-Protector ) of Bohemia and Moravia, SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, in 1942 as part of Operation Anthropoid.

Eicke's reorganization and the introduction of forced labor made the camps one of the SS's most powerful tools, but it earned him the enmity of RSHA director, Reinhard Heydrich, who was attempting to take over control of Dachau.

At Stalin's order, the NKVD instructed one of its agents, Nikolai Skoblin, to pass to Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the German Nazi SD ( Sicherheitsdienst ) intelligence arm, concocted information suggesting a plot by Tukhachevsky and the other Soviet generals against Stalin.

On 15 and 16 October 1939, the Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung inside the Haus der Deutschen Kunst was complemented by the monumental Tag der Deutschen Kunst celebration of " 2, 000 years of Germanic culture " where luxuriously and pretentiously draped floats ( one of them carrying a 5 meter tall golden Nazi Reichsadler ) and thousands of actors in historical costumes paraded down Prinzregentenstraße for hours in the presence of Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, Albert Speer, Robert Ley, Reinhard Heydrich, and many other high-ranking Nazis, with minor events taking place in the Englischer Garten nearby.

The SS leader Reinhard Heydrich who also was a Luftwaffe pilot was one also using the airport.

1938 telegram giving orders during Kristallnacht, signed by Heydrich

Himmler and Heydrich wanted to extend the power of the SS ; thus, they urged Hitler to form a national police force overseen by the SS, to guard Nazi Germany against its many enemies at the time — real and imagined.

*-A fictionalized account of the death of Reinhard Heydrich and the reprisal against Licide.

Heydrich gave them a mandate to secure the offices and papers of the Soviet state and Communist Party ; to liquidate all of the higher cadres of the Soviet state ; and to instigate and encourage pogroms against all local Jewish populations.

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 ".

He decided against it, but the poem does appear in MGM's film about Heydrich, Hitler's Madman ( 1943 ).

The Gleiwitz incident in 1939 involved Reinhard Heydrich fabricating evidence of a Polish attack against Germany to mobilize German public opinion for war, to establish casus belli, and to justify the war with Poland.

Heydrich and Heinrich Himmler relied on Best to develop and explain legally the activities against enemies of the state and in relation to the Nazi Jewish policy.

At the Nuremberg Trials, Naujocks declared the attack against German Radio Tower in Gleiwitz was under orders from Heinrich Müller, the head of Gestapo and his superior, Reinhard Heydrich.

In 1998, Jäckel argued that Hitler was able to begin the Holocaust in mid-1941 by playing Himmler against Heydrich.