The May 1942 assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Germany's Reichsprotektor for Bohemia and Moravia, altered the course of World War II. Anthropoid (in theaters August 12) tells the story of the Czech ...

Operation Anthropoid was a spectacular mission. It saw the successful assassination of the high-ranking Nazi, Chief of the Reich Main Security Office, and Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia, ...

The hollowed-out soul of one of Nazi Germany’s worst criminals is explored through his wife’s recollections in this searching biography. Dougherty, a biographer and film critic who died in 2013, ...

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 ...

Not for nothing was Reinhard Heydrich called ‘Hitler’s hangman’ by the German writer Thomas Mann. In the 1930s, Heydrich headed the German political police, crushing domestic opposition to Hitler’s ...

Reinhard Heydrich died and went to hell. “Hello,” said the Devil. “We’ve been getting quite a few of you Gestapo men lately. I understand there will be more, too, before long. But you were supposed to ...

With loving parents and a brilliant cultured mind, Reinhard Heydrich made an unlikely Nazi monster He died from his injuries a week after being attacked by a team of Czech and Slovak soldiers His ...

The grave of a top Nazi who helped plan the Holocaust and was assassinated by British-trained agents during World War II has been dug up in Berlin, German police said on Monday. Adolf Hitler ...

The grave of Reinhard Heydrich, who helped plan the Holocaust and was assassinated by British-trained agents during World War II, has been dug up in Berlin, German police said. His grave was "dug up ...