Reinhard Heydrich

homosexuals because they were seen as a threat to Germany's society and future. During the Holocaust many groups did not fit into Hitler's idea of a perfect society, and some of those groups were the Roma's, the handicapped, and homosexuals. Reinhard Heydrich planned on deporting around 30,000…

Hitler and relatively unopposed by any other organization. The SD proved to be one of the most important expansive elements within the SS. Himmler gradually became more dependent on his right hand man--Reinhard Heydrich. Surveillance and intelligence were of utmost importance to Hitler and Himmler. Heydrich and his SD became their centralized domestic, clandestine organization. By 1935, Hitler began to divert most of his attentions to external matters. Foreign policy and the return of German…

rivalry between Himmler and Goring developed when Goring set his sights on the Gestapo¨ (www.historyplace.com). After awhile, Himmler had handed over the Gestapo to Goring on April 20,1934. When Goring had taken over the Gestapo, he had assigned Reinhard Heydrich to be the main chief. ¨Goring had started using the Gestapo to silence Hitler´s political opponents from Berlin¨ (www.historyplace.com). ¨The Gestapo followed Hitler´s armies into every country during the conquest of Europe¨…

Holocaust Ghettos Ghetto - A section of a city, especially a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships (Dictionary.com). Ghettos were just one of the things that made the Holocaust miserable for Jews. They were very important to the Nazis during the Holocaust. They helped them in many ways, and the Nazis probably couldn’t have succeeded; well, partly…

1). Research from the “Wannsee Conference and the “Final Solution” says that the deliberate and mass annihilation of the European Jewish population was authorized in 1941 by Adolf Hitler: the “Final Solution”. SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the chief of the Reich Security Main Office, assembled the conference to inform and ensure approval from government ministries and other agencies pertinent to the exercise of the “Final Solution”, and to affirm his administrative position of…

The holocaust is one of those topics that is not easy to talk about. The killing of over 6 million Jews? That doesn’t sound like something that would be fun or exciting, does it? I mean think about it, nobody really wants to talk about the chaos that went on throughout those years or the punishment that many innocent people had to go through and the mass killing. Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning “sacrifice by fire”. In 1945 two out of every three Jews had been killed. Most people ask…

Spying and Espionage have had a great effect on World War II as a whole. Many countries, specifically Britain, have made great efforts in the counterintelligence department. Britain employed many different spying groups, each with slightly different purposes. The SOE, or Special Operations Executive, formed on July 22, 1940, was a British combination of three distinct spying groups to gather intelligence, scout, and plot against the Axis Powers in Occupied Europe, and help resistance movements,…

Adolf Hitler was a cruel man that preached a message of hate and violence towards millions of Jews and his enemies. Even though Hitler hated his enemies he never killed them himself. He relied on ruthless organizations like the SS to carry out his vision of racial purity. The SS committed countless crimes against humanity for Hitler and Nazi Germany. Only die hard Hitler supporters, Aryans and cold-blooded killers were accepted into the SS. The SS was almost unavoidable as they were apart of…

Question: Account for the historical centrality and symbolic weight of 'Auschwitz'. The historical centrality and symbolic weight of Auschwitz are a result of its infamous working conditions and death toll, its massive size and high-tech killing facilities, and that its survivors ensured that its harrowing stories were known. The largest and most high-tech of the Nazi extermination camps, its facilities are illustrative of genocide and concentration on an industrial scale; attributes which…

Adolf Hitler believed that the Aryan race, which is where all ‘true Germans’ belonged to, was the race of gods, and in order to save this race it requires the elimination of opposing threats. This essay covers the rise of the Nazis and Hitler, the ideologies that he put into place and the execution of the final solution. This was all so the Aryan race could be the highest race of all of the races. During 1930 the economic depression hit Germany hard as there was millions out of jobs and many…