Reinhard Heydrich

German Nazi SS and Gestapo police official and main architect of the Holocaust Genocide (1904-1942)

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Lived 1904–1942, aged 38Germany
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    Aged 38
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    1956
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Updated 2026-09-08

One of the principal architects of the Holocaust. He chaired the Wannsee Conference in January 1942, which formalised the plan for the systematic murder of Europe's Jews. Hitler called him "the man with the iron heart."

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Heydrich rose to become chief of the Reich Security Main Office in September 1939, commanding the Gestapo, Kripo, and SD. He founded the Sicherheitsdienst, an intelligence arm that neutralised resistance through arrests, deportations, and murder. He helped organise Kristallnacht in November 1938 and was directly responsible for the Einsatzgruppen, mobile killing units that murdered over two million people, including 1.3 million Jews, by mass shooting and gassing. Appointed Deputy Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, he suppressed Czech culture and executed resistance members. On 27 May 1942…

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Reinhard Heydrich
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To take the place of emigration, and with the prior approval of the Führer, the evacuation of the Jews to the East has become another possible solution.
Speech at the Wannsee Conference, Berlin, (20 January 1942), as quoted in Why Did the Heavens Not Darken : The "Final Solution (1990) by A.
Reinhard Heydrich
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We will Germanize the Czech vermin.
To his aides after his appointment as the Acting Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia on 27 September 1941
Reinhard Heydrich
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It is natural that people do not want to be involved with us too much. There is no problem down to the smallest egotistical longing which the Gestapo cannot solve.
To his officers on German Police Day (February, 1941), as quoted in Gestapo : Instrument of Tyranny (1956) by Edward Crankshaw, p. 103
Reinhard Heydrich
saidundated
So far you have been treated as an officer and a gentleman, but don't think that this will go on if you don't behave better than you have done.
To Captain Sigismund Payne Best, as quoted in The Venlo Incident (1950) by Sigismund Payne Best, p. 41
Reinhard Heydrich
saidundated
The world is just a barrel-organ which the Lord God turns Himself. We all have to dance to the tune which is already on the drum.
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