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Reinhard Heydrich

1904–1942 · 20th century

Reinhard Heydrich was a senior SS officer, head of the Reich Security Main Office and one of the main architects of the Holocaust, who chaired the Wannsee Conference in January 1942. Appointed deputy Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia in 1941, he ruled the Czechs by terror. Czechoslovak parachutists mortally wounded him in Prague in May 1942, and the Nazis destroyed Lidice in reprisal.

Reinhard Heydrich
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Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia

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