On the twenty-ninth of May, 1942, Radio Prague announced that Reinhard Heydrich, Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia, was dying; assassins had wounded him fatally (The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich). On June 6th he was reported dead. Reinhard Heydrich also known as, “The Hangman”, was one of the heinous and most brutal mass murderers in Nazi Germany. Reinhard was a high-positioning German Nazi official who was also one of the vital planners of the ‘Final Solution’ aka the Holocaust (biography.com). His protégé, Walter Schellenberg, described him as a man with “a cruel, brave, and cold intelligence.” (jewishvirtuallibrary.org). These were factors that led up to his assassination in 1942. He was attacked by agents who were ordered to assassinated (biography.com). He escaped but died later due to his critical injuries. The assassination of Reinhard Heydrich was just because he was a main architect of the Holocaust and a cold-hearted mass murderer. However, some of his supporters say he was a clever and diligent leader. Heydrich’s assassination was righteous due to his involvement with the ‘Final Solution’, widely known as the Holocaust. According to the Holocaust Encyclopedia, he was chief of the Reich Security Main Office, the SS and police agency most directly concerned with implementing the Nazi plan …show more content…
Hitler grieved his fallen officer as Heydrich had a ruthless diligence that is not found very often. Being a great leader and a clever one is a great asset to have in a military, however Reinhard Heydrich was a Nazi official. The Nazis were a large hate group that called out for the extermination of the Jewish race in Germany and all of Europe. His ‘cleverness’ also helped devise the plan to the “Final Solution”. His ‘diligence’ also caused him to be a cold-hearted lapdog to Adolf
Finding Eichmann “When history looks back I want people to know the Nazis weren’t able to kill millions of people and get away with it. ”-Simon Wiesenthal (Simon Wiesenthal "The Nazi Hunter”) Simon Wiesenthal dedicated his life documenting crimes over the holocaust. Simon Wiesenthal may have been a victim of the Nazi brutality in the concentration camps, but when WWII was over Wiesenthal became “A Nazi Hunter” searching for war criminals so justice could be realized. Simon Wiesenthal was born on December 31, 1908 in Buczacz now know as Lvov in Ukraine.
In November 1918, the War to End All Wars ended. Americans never imagined being in another world war. Others from other countries hoped it would be the last world war. Until about 20 years later, 1939 marked the start of another world war. This world war is known as World War II, but its time was also known as the “Greatest Generation”.
Over the years of 1933-1945 over a million people were killed due to the Holocaust and more than half of them were Jewish. January 20, 1942 there was a meeting called the Wannsee Conference held by Nazi officials and attended by government ministers to discuss the problem of the European Jews. Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Reich Main Security Office was in charge of the meeting. Before this meeting there had been major events that occurred all over Europe causing the Jewish race to become belittled in most of Europe. Adolf Hitler preached that the Jews were not the same as them and Germany needed to remove them from their country and the surrounds areas.
He ordered the persecution and assassination of millions of Jewish people… Now some people might say that the Holocaust did not happen and that is was all faked, but I am going to talk a little bit about how it is an impossible
I. Introduction The Holocaust is one of the most horrific and cruel genocides known to mankind. Adolf Eichmann is one of the many people who took a huge part in this genocide. He thought of ways to transport Jews to and from concentration camps, as well as ways to efficiently kill a great number of them. Eichmann's atrocious thought processes affects millions of lives.
In 1933, Adolf Hitler was elected chancellor of Germany. By 1945, he was responsible for over six million deaths. During the Holocaust, Jewish people were persecuted for their religion. They were forced to move to concentration camps where they were murdered or forced to do hard labor. Elie Wiesel was taken to the Auschwitz camp with his family when he was just fifteen years old.
The leader of the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler, described himself as the creator of the Holocaust alongside his personal assistants, such as Himmler, who would give speeches on behalf of Hitler. The purpose of their actions was to kill anyone who did fit their ideal descriptions, mainly targeting Jewish people. The actions of the leader’s responsible lead to a dramatic increase in their power. As the Holocaust continued Hitler and the Nazis only got stronger. Although their power increased within Nazi Germany, many people started to riot and attempt to end Hitler’s reign, resulting a couple failed assassination attempts.
Due to distress within the German community, Adolf Hitler rose to power just before World War II. He became more and more powerful and his influence dispersed nationally. Hitler’s popularity lead him to begin the extermination of anyone Jewish; known today as the Holocaust. Over the years many stories have been told about the Holocaust. Tales of survival and triumph, tribulation and sorrow.
In mid-1941 Hitler attacked the Soviet Union. At about the same time - history specialists don 't concur on precisely when - Hitler likewise chose that there ought to be a "Last Solution" to "the Jewish question." The "Last Solution" was the homicide of the Jews and was basically completed by a military gathering known as the SS and a security administration known as the SD. The Gestapo was a piece of the SD. They captured Jews and different casualties, ran the inhumane imprisonments and composed the homicide
He published a book many years later, to tell his side of the story. The Holocaust was an extermination plan for the Jewish faith and its followers. The Holocaust was under the control of a Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler. Hitler was an anti-Semite, meaning he not only had hatred towards the Jews but he showed it as well. As of today, the Holocaust genocide by far, was the most horrifying event for the Jews as well as the nation.
In the spring of nineteen-forty five the Nazis realized they were on the verge of defeat by the Ally forces. They needed to be gone until they could gain back power. They knew they had to do something about it. They knew something had to be done about their leader, Adolf Hitler. They constructed a plan to fake the death of Hitler.
Heydrich the Psychopath Reinhard Heydrich fit the profile of a psychopath. While Heydrich’s lack of conscience, cunning, diverse criminal career, and personal ambition could be chalked up to variables such as the Nazi ideology, upbringing, and/or the demands of intelligence work, other personality traits cannot. Heydrich had an impulsivity and sex drive commonly found in psychopaths, getting himself thrown out of the Navy and losing a pension he greatly desired as the result of an indecent relationship with a woman. Heydrich would continue to remain addicted to sex during his time with the SS, often dragging colleagues on escapades to find women for sex and showing a callous disregard for his wife and children (Dederichs 2009, 77-78). Heydrich was also known for consuming excessive amounts of alcohol during these escapades and on other occasions.
Hitler always had a deep desire for power. When Germany was in an economy a political crisis, Hitler saw this advantage for him. Aldof Hitler was short-tempered, strict and brutal. And Hitler is responsible for the death of millions. Like Macbeth, Macbeth killed the innocent to keep his rise of power.
The background to this is that Hitler, Eva, and a few other key personnel were hidden in a bunker, when they heard of the invasion of Berlin and the Ally forces closing in on them, Hitler and Eva decided to commit suicide and some Nazi officers burned their bodies; by the time the Allies got there the only way to identify them was by dental records. After Hitler committed suicide, it was likened to a “spell” being broken (source unknown). The public support of the Third Reich broke down completely, the officers abandoned their posts and fled, and the concentration camps were left to eventually be found by Ally soldiers. ~~~ Hitler was a man of great talent, power, fortitude,
Adolf was the leader of the Nazi Party and a German politician. Adolf was extremely anti-jew, so bad that he made concentration camps to have all of these jews killed. They were gathered from all over Germany to be put in camps and killed or tortured. According to Machiavelli’s standards, Adolf had part of a good leader right. Adolf was extremely fierce like a lion, which is how Machiavelli wanted a prince to be, but Adolf was just too fierce by going to the point where he was killing people for no good reason.