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Reinhard Heydrich

  • Gleiwitz incidentOn the night of the 31st of August 1939, a small group of German operatives dressed in Polish uniforms seized the radio station Sender Gleiwitz.
  • Protectorate of Bohemia and MoraviaAdolf Hitler stood inside the historic walls of Prague Castle on the 16th of March 1939 to declare a new political reality.
  • EinsatzgruppenIn March 1938, Reinhard Heydrich formed an ad hoc unit to secure government buildings and documents following the German annexation of Austria.
  • GestapoHermann Göring, the future commander of the Luftwaffe and number-two man in the Nazi Party, became Interior Minister of Prussia shortly after Adolf Hitler…