In which city on the Saale was Reinhard Heydrich born in 1904?
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Halle
His father Bruno Heydrich was an opera singer, composer and founder of a music conservatory.
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Reinhard Heydrich
Heydrich in 1922 as a cadet in the Reichsmarine.
Which instrument did Heydrich play to an almost professional standard?
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violin
He played chamber music until the end: a sign that education and refinement were no protection against mass murder.
From which branch of the armed forces was Heydrich dishonourably discharged in 1931?
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the Reichsmarine
The reason was a broken promise of marriage to another woman after he had become engaged to Lina von Osten.
Which SS intelligence service did Heydrich build up from 1931 on Himmler's orders?
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the Security Service
The SD first spied on political opponents and on the party itself, later on the entire population.
Which authority founded in 1939, combining the Gestapo, Kripo and SD, did Heydrich run?
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the Reich Security Main Office
From here the Einsatzgruppen, deportations and persecution across occupied Europe were directed.
Which meeting of senior officials did Heydrich chair in Berlin on 20 January 1942?
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the Wannsee Conference
There Heydrich had the ministries and party confirm his leading role in the “Final Solution”; Adolf Eichmann took the minutes.
In which role did Heydrich rule occupied Bohemia and Moravia from September 1941?
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acting Reich Protector
He had hundreds of people executed to break the resistance while luring workers with bigger rations.
Under which code name did Czechoslovak paratroopers carry out the attack on Heydrich in 1942?
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Operation Anthropoid
Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš had been flown in from Britain; Kubiš' grenade fatally wounded Heydrich on 27 May 1942.
💡 Did you know? The assassins were betrayed and died in June 1942 fighting the SS in the crypt of a Prague church.
Which village west of Prague did the SS and police wipe out in June 1942 in revenge for the attack on Heydrich?
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Lidice
All 173 men over 15 were shot, the women deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp, and most of the children murdered at Chełmno.
💡 Did you know? Afterwards towns and squares around the world took the name Lidice so that it would not disappear.
Which code name was given after Heydrich's death to the murder of the Jews in the General Government?
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Operation Reinhard
In the extermination camps of Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka about 1.7 million people were murdered in 1942/43.
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