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Heinrich Himmler in 1941

Heinrich Himmler

AKA Heinrich Luitpold Himmler  Born: 7-Oct-1900
Birthplace: Munich, Germany
Died: May 23-1945
Location of death: Lüneburg, Germany
Cause of death: Suicide
Remains: Buried in unmarked grave outside of Lüneburg.
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Military

Nationality: Germany
Executive summary: Reichsführer-SS

Military service: 

Father: Joseph Gebhard Himmler
Mother: Anna Maria Himmler
Wife: Margarete Boden  Himmler
Daughter: Gudrun Himmler

* Fathered two illegitimate children with his then secretary Hedwig Potthast
 

Himmler Biography

Reinhard Heydrich 1939

Reinhard Heydrich

AKA Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich Born: 7-Mar-1904
Birthplace: Halle an der Saale, Germany
Died: 4-Jun-1942
Location of death: Prague, Czechia
Cause of death: Assassination
Remains: Buried, Invaliden, Berlin
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Military

Nationality: Germany
Executive summary: Protector of Bohemia and Moravia

Military service: German Navy (1922-31)

Father: Bruno Heydrich
Mother: Elizabeth Kranz
Wife: Lina von Osten (m. 26-Dec-1931)
Son: Klaus (b. 1933)
Son: Heider (b. 1934)
Daughter: Silke (b. 1939)
Daughter: Marte (b. 1942)

SS-Obergruppenführer, chief of the Reich Security Main Office (which included the Gestapo, SD and Kripo Nazi police agencies) and Reich governor of Bohemia and Moravia. Hitler considered him a possible successor. He was nicknamed "The Butcher of Prague", "The Blond Beast" and "Der Henker" (German for the hangman).

Heydrich was one of the architects of the Holocaust, chairing the 1942 Wannsee conference, which laid out the plans for the extermination of all European Jews. Heydrich was wounded by British-trained Czechoslovak partisans in Prague during an assassination attempt named Operation Anthropoid. He would later die from these wounds.

Heydrich Biography