Reinhard+Heydrich



Reinhard Heydrick was an SS General. He was the chief of: Security Service of the Reichsfuhrer from 1931 until 1942. He was also the chief of, German secret state police, German Security Police which consisted of the Gestapo and the criminal police detective forces, and the Reich security Main Office. Heydrick was in command in the RSHA. The RSHA was the SS and police agency that was concerned with implanting the Nazi plan to murder European Jews during World War II. There were rumors that Heydrich’s grandmother was Jewish, he ordered SS ancestry researchers to establish the facts: that he had now Jewish ancestors. Under Heydrich’s rule, the security police and the SD, was the primary agency responsible for intelligence analysis in suppressing numerous internal and external enemies. Hermann Goring, authorized Heydrich to develop plans for a “solution to the Jewish Question.” Heydrich submitted a draft measures proposed to implement the final solution. On January 20, 1942, Heydrich held a meeting that was authorized by Hitler himself, he informed the participants that Hitler had authorized the physical annihilation of the European Jews and had designated the SS to coordinate the “Final Solution policy.” Heydrich was in charge of planning the element of what would become the killing aspect of the Holocaust. Hitler described Heydrich as “one of the best National Socialists, one of the staunchest defenders of the concept of the German Reich and one of the greatest opponents of all enemies of this Reich.”

Erin Garay