In the 1990s, I would meet Nancy Dougherty at the National Arts Club occasionally to talk shop about biography and her work on Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Holocaust. I would always ...

The exploits of an iconic Nazi illuminate the Third Reich’s ideology and machinery of mass murder in this probing biography. A hawk-faced Aryan poster boy who fended off false rumors of Jewish ...

Not for nothing was Reinhard Heydrich called ‘Hitler’s hangman’ by the German writer Thomas Mann. In the 1930s, Heydrich headed the German political police, crushing domestic opposition to Hitler’s ...

Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich, also known as The Hangman, was a high-ranking German Nazi official. He was SS Obergruppenführer and General der Polizei, chief of the Reich Main Security Office and ...

Motivations for murder A new biography of Reinhard Heydrich argues that decisions to exterminate the Jews were not made in the 1930s but developed in stages, often in response to changing political ...

The grave of a top Nazi who helped plan the Holocaust and was assassinated by British-trained agents during World War II has been dug up in Berlin, German police said on Monday. Adolf Hitler ...