Reinhard Heydrich

Reinhard Heydrich

Birth : 1904-03-07, Halle an der Saale, Germany

Death : 1942-06-04

History

Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich, also known as The Hangman, was a high-ranking German Nazi official. He was SS Obergruppenführer and General der Polizei, chief of the Reich Main Security Office and Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia. In August 1940, he was appointed and served as President of Interpol. Heydrich chaired the 1942 Wannsee Conference, which discussed plans for the deportation and extermination of all Jews in German-occupied territory. In Operation Anthropoid, he was attacked in Prague on May 27, 1942, by British-trained Slovak and Czech agents. He died approximately one week later due to his injuries.

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Reinhard Heydrich

Movies

Dawn of the Nazis
Self (archive footage)
How Germany was when its people entered the nightmare of World War II? Despair and fear lead a hungry population to follow the chilling call of just one man to world domination. A real-life horror story, an ominous tale of violence and deception, which takes place from 1919 to 1934. (Entirely made up of restored, colorized archival footage.)
The Gestapo: Hitler's Secret Police
Self (archive footage)
The rise and fall of Nazi Germany's terrifying secret police force from 1933 through 1945.
Death in Focus
Self (archive footage)
Death in all it's faces and stages. From the horrors of Buchenwald to the devastation of Hiroshima. From the political assassinations of the second half of the 20th century to the bloody feeding frenzy of the pythons of Burma. Burned on to the screen like napalm victims of Vietnam. Followed by "Death in Focus" part 2.
Opus pro smrtihlava
Reinhard Heydrich
Night and Fog
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
Adolf Hitler - Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer: Dokumente der Zeitgeschichte
Self (archive footage)
The film begins with the First World War and ends in 1945. Without exception, recordings from this period were used, which came from weekly news reports from different countries. Previously unpublished scenes about the private life of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were also shown for the first time. The film was originally built into a frame story. The Off Commentary begins with the words: "This film [...] is a document of delusion that on the way to power tore an entire people and a whole world into disaster. This film portrays the suffering of a generation that only ended five to twelve. " The film premiered in Cologne on November 20, 1953, but was immediately banned by Federal Interior Minister Gerhard Schröder in agreement with the interior ministers of the federal states of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Distant Journey
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Prague, during World War II. Hana Kaufmann, a Jewish ophthalmologist, marries Dr. Antonín Bureš, a Christian man. When her family is sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, their romance turns into a struggle for survival.