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ISBN10: 0300187726, ISBN13: 9780300187724, [publisher: Yale University Press 2012-08-10, New Haven, [Conn.] |London] Softcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2012]

ISBN10: 0300187726, ISBN13: 9780300187724, [publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven] Softcover Paperback. A chilling biography of the head of Nazi Germanys terror apparatus, Reinhard Heydricha key player in the Third Reich whose full story has never before been toldGerwarth dispassionately examines Heydrichs rise and assassination, which resulted in a horrific series of Nazi reprisals in Czechoslovakia. The best account of Heydrich.Jacob Heilbrunn, The Daily Beast Meticulously takes us inside the Third Reich, . . . revealing as few texts do how the bureaucracy of evil worked.Kirkus Reviews Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the twentieth century, an appalling figure even within the context of the Nazi leadership. Chief of the Nazi Criminal Police, the SS Security Service, and the Gestapo, ruthless overlord of Nazi-occupied Bohemia and Moravia, and leading planner of the "Final Solution," Heydrich played a central role in Hitler's Germany. He shouldered a major share of responsibility for some of the worst Nazi atrocities, and up to his assassination in Prague in 1942, he was widely seen as one of the most dangerous men in Nazi Germany. Yet Heydrich has received remarkably modest attention in the extensive literature of the Third Reich.Robert Gerwarth weaves together little-known stories of Heydrich's private life with his deeds as head of the Nazi Reich Security Main Office. Fully exploring ...

ISBN10: 0300187726, ISBN13: 9780300187724, [publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven] Softcover Paperback. A chilling biography of the head of Nazi Germanys terror apparatus, Reinhard Heydricha key player in the Third Reich whose full story has never before been toldGerwarth dispassionately examines Heydrichs rise and assassination, which resulted in a horrific series of Nazi reprisals in Czechoslovakia. The best account of Heydrich.Jacob Heilbrunn, The Daily Beast Meticulously takes us inside the Third Reich, . . . revealing as few texts do how the bureaucracy of evil worked.Kirkus Reviews Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the twentieth century, an appalling figure even within the context of the Nazi leadership. Chief of the Nazi Criminal Police, the SS Security Service, and the Gestapo, ruthless overlord of Nazi-occupied Bohemia and Moravia, and leading planner of the "Final Solution," Heydrich played a central role in Hitler's Germany. He shouldered a major share of responsibility for some of the worst Nazi atrocities, and up to his assassination in Prague in 1942, he was widely seen as one of the most dangerous men in Nazi Germany. Yet Heydrich has received remarkably modest attention in the extensive literature of the Third Reich.Robert Gerwarth weaves together little-known stories of Heydrich's private life with his deeds as head of the Nazi Reich Security Main Office. Fully exploring ...