Heydrich, Reinhard, << HY drihk, RYN hahrt >> (1904-1942), was one of the most feared men in Nazi Germany. As chief of the security police, he treated “enemies of the state” with merciless brutality. Heydrich was the chief organizer of the “final solution,” a Nazi plan to murder all European Jews. He headed the Wannsee Conference in 1942, where high-ranking Nazies gathered to discuss how the final solution would be carried out.
Heydrich was killed by a bomb in Prague, Czechoslovakia on June 4, 1942. In revenge, the Nazis destroyed the village of Lidice and executed all its male inhabitants, condemned a thousand Czechs to death, and killed several thousand Jews. Heydrich was born on March 7, 1904, in Halle, Germany. See also Lidice.
