Reinhard Heydrich - Der Henker aus Halle
- Episode aired Nov 19, 2006
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This episode deals with Reynhard Heydrich, who was an interesting man. He was tall, lanky, and fair -- very Aryan. Heydrich's father was a composer and Heydrich himself played the violin. He was a devoted family man, a skier, and a competition-level fencer. And he was the ruthlessly efficient propellant behind some of the most horrifying crimes of his century.
He was Hitler's deputy and the brains behind Heinrich Himmler's SS, and he was responsible for the mass deportation of Jews and, later, their systematic extermination. Aside from Hitler, he was probably the most evil man in the Nazi leadership.
Most of the footage consists of newsreels and family movies of Heydrich but the episode presents eyewitnesses to Heydrich's activities, some victims, some friends or subordinates of Heydrich. His responsibility was the elimination of everyone who was even suspected of becoming a dissident in the future; not only Jews but socialists and a nursing nun who refused to take down the crucifix in her church.
He was sent to Czechoslovakia to tighten the yoke over the weak government that remained. In Prague he was given the keys to the city, and was about to be promoted, his new post being Paris, where he would supervise the elimination of all French Jews.
There was, however, a government in exile in Britain, where two Czech soldiers were trained for a particular mission, the assassination of Reynhard Heydrich. They succeeded. The consequences were dire. The village in which the killing took place was blown up and razes. The men and boys were executed. The women were separated from their children nd sent to Ravensbrück where most of them died.
It's hard to argue that things improved with the elimination of Heydrich. His plans were already in place and ready to be implemented. If Hitler had succeeded in subduing the Soviet Union, the systematic extermination of Slavs would have been undertaken. Some Russians would have been turned into slave labor. About thirty million would have been murdered, and the rest sent to the gulag.
There's no doubt that in his public life, Reynard Heydrich exemplified the most base impulses that a human being is capable of.
This episode deals with Reynhard Heydrich, who was an interesting man. He was tall, lanky, and fair -- very Aryan. Heydrich's father was a composer and Heydrich himself played the violin. He was a devoted family man, a skier, and a competition-level fencer. And he was the ruthlessly efficient propellant behind some of the most horrifying crimes of his century.
He was Hitler's deputy and the brains behind Heinrich Himmler's SS, and he was responsible for the mass deportation of Jews and, later, their systematic extermination. Aside from Hitler, he was probably the most evil man in the Nazi leadership.
Most of the footage consists of newsreels and family movies of Heydrich but the episode presents eyewitnesses to Heydrich's activities, some victims, some friends or subordinates of Heydrich. His responsibility was the elimination of everyone who was even suspected of becoming a dissident in the future; not only Jews but socialists and a nursing nun who refused to take down the crucifix in her church.
He was sent to Czechoslovakia to tighten the yoke over the weak government that remained. In Prague he was given the keys to the city, and was about to be promoted, his new post being Paris, where he would supervise the elimination of all French Jews.
There was, however, a government in exile in Britain, where two Czech soldiers were trained for a particular mission, the assassination of Reynhard Heydrich. They succeeded. The consequences were dire. The village in which the killing took place was blown up and razes. The men and boys were executed. The women were separated from their children nd sent to Ravensbrück where most of them died.
It's hard to argue that things improved with the elimination of Heydrich. His plans were already in place and ready to be implemented. If Hitler had succeeded in subduing the Soviet Union, the systematic extermination of Slavs would have been undertaken. Some Russians would have been turned into slave labor. About thirty million would have been murdered, and the rest sent to the gulag.
There's no doubt that in his public life, Reynard Heydrich exemplified the most base impulses that a human being is capable of.
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