As head of party's security service and Heinrich Himmler's deputy, he was instrumental in organizing the "final solution", the policy of genocide used against Jews, Poles, and other races.
While deputy "protector" of Bohemia and Moravia from 1941, he was ambushed and killed by three members of the Czech forces in Britain, who had landed by parachute.
Reprisals followed, including several hundred executions and the destruction of the Czech village of Lidice and its inhabitants.
Why is Reinhard Heydrich famous?
Reinhard Heydrich was a high-ranking German Nazi official during World War II.
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