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Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (born ; 7 March 1904 ; Halle an der Salle,Prussia, Germany- died ; 4 June 1942 ; Prague,Nazi-German Occupied Czechoslovakia). He was a high-ranking German Nazi SS-Gestapo officer before and during World War 2.
Heydrich was an officer in the German Navy of the Reichswehr from 1922 to 1931 when he was expelled. He later became the most and feared Nazi officer in the SS Paramilitary and the Gestapo Secret Police in Germany.
Like other members of the SS, Reinhard Heydrich wore black from 1933-1939, grey from 1938-1942 and feldgrau (gray-green from 1941-1942. He also wore blue in the Wehrmacht’s Luftwaffe Air Force from 1935-1941.
His enemies in Czechoslovakia gave him various nicknames: (The Hangman, The Butcher of Prague, The Blond Beast, Himmler's Evil Genius, Young Evil God Of Death). Adolf Hitler called him "The Man With The Iron Heart".
He executed Jewish people and children. He ordered the Waffen-SS and the Einsatzgruppen to execute people in Prague,Czechoslovakia (Today : Czech Republic). He also ordered Adolf Eichmann to organise transport during the Holocaust.
His younger brother, Heinz Heydrich, a journalist, helped many Jews to escape the Holocaust after Reinhard's death.