Reinhard Heydrich A Brief Biography essays

Reinhard Heydrich A Brief Biography essays Reinhard Heydrich: A Brief Biography Reinhard Heydrich was a self-driven man with an incredible determination to succeed at everything he did. He was a cold manipulator with no respect for human lives who was the leading planner of Hitlers Final Solution in which the Nazis wanted to get rid of every Jew in Europe. Heydrich was born in the German city of Halle in 1904. Heydrich was teased through almost all of his life causing him to be withdrawn and unhappy as a child, but still always having a strong will within him. Heydrich was always drawn to military type organizations and as soon as he was of legal age, 18, he joined the German Navy. With his determination to succeed Heydrich rose quickly through the ranks but was kicked out after a sex scandal and it was then that Heydrich joined the Nazi party. Because of his incredible will to succeed, Heydrich quickly rose through the ranks in the Nazi party as well but false rumours of his Jewish ancestry stopped him momentarily. Heydrich liked working behind the scenes; he was behind much of the espionage and he was also behind the fall of many of his enemies within the Nazi party. Through his manipulation and planning Heydrich soon became one of the top men in the Nazi party and was finally appointed the Protector of Czechoslovakia. Two of the first things he did there was to set up a Jewish ghetto and bring the resistance movement down to the best of his ability. Heydrich was by now very confident and to show that he was confident and not afraid of the resistance he drove around in an open car without a military escort. Ironically, this is what brough Heydrichs life to an end because it was during one of his trips that he was attacked by Free Czech agents. They shot at him and then threw a bomb, but Heydrich did not die immediately instead he died off blood poisoning from the shrapnel from the bomb. As revenge, the Nazis killed over a thousand a suspects and totally demolis...