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Lina Heydrich gave birth to two sons, Klaus (born 17 June 1933) and Heider (born 23 December 1934). By the late 1930s, the duties of Reinhard Heydrich led him to work long hours and often be away from home. This left Lina at home with the children and having to run the household alone.
Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (/ ˈ h aɪ d r ɪ k / HY-drik, German: [ˈʁaɪnhaʁt ˈtʁɪstan ˈʔɔʏɡ(ɘ)n̩ ˈhaɪdʁɪç] ⓘ; 7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was a high-ranking German SS and police official during the Nazi era and a principal architect of the Holocaust.
In May 1942, while driving from the mansion to his work in Prague, Heydrich died as a result of an assassination attempt. After Heydrich's death, his widow Lina lived with the children at the castle until 1945. Their ten-year-old son Klaus died in a car accident there in October 1943.
Reinhard Heydrich: Bohemian corporal [7] Adolf Hitler: Butcher of Lyon Klaus Barbie: Butcher of Prague [8] Reinhard Heydrich: Butcher of Riga [9] Eduard Roschmann: Butcher of Warsaw [10] Josef Albert Meisinger: Butcher of Warsaw Heinz Reinefarth: Butcher Widow [11] Ilse Koch: Frankenstein [12] Josef Blösche: Desert Fox, The Erwin Rommel ...
The assassination of Heydrich was one of the most significant moments of the resistance in Czechoslovakia. Čurda, who had betrayed Heydrich's assassins, was hanged for high treason in 1947 after attempting suicide. [71] [72] On 5 August 1942, British foreign secretary Anthony Eden issued a declaration that Germany had destroyed the Munich ...
Heinz Heydrich was an Obersturmführer (lieutenant), journalist, and publisher of the soldiers' newspaper, Die Panzerfaust.He was at first a fervent admirer of Hitler. Before his brother Reinhard's State funeral in Berlin in June 1942, Heydrich was given a large packet containing his brother's files, released from his strongbox at Gestapo Headquarters, 8 Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse, Berli
After the Nazis came to power in 1933, Heydrich, as head of the Security Service (SD), recruited Müller, Franz Josef Huber and Josef Albert Meisinger, who were collectively referred to as the "Bajuwaren-Brigade" (Bavarian Brigade). [10] Müller joined the SS in 1934. By 1936, with Heydrich head of the Gestapo, Müller was its operations chief ...
Memorial to the murdered children of Lidice Lidice museum. The Lidice massacre (Czech: Vyhlazení Lidic) was the complete destruction of the village of Lidice in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, which is now a part of the Czech Republic, in June 1942 on orders from Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and acting Reichsprotektor Kurt Daluege, successor to Reinhard Heydrich.