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The Hangman and His Wife—
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The Story
An astonishing journey into the heart of Nazi evil; a portrait of one of the darkest figures of Hitler's Nazi elite, the designer and executor of the Holocaust, chief of the Reich Main Security, including the Gestapo; interwoven with commentary by Reinhard Heydrich's wife, from the author's in-depth interviews. He was called the Hangman of the Gestapo, the ''butcher of Prague,''with a reputation as a ruthlessly efficient killer. He was the head of the SS, and the Gestapo, second in command to Heinrich Himmler. His orders set in motionthe Kristallnacht pogrom of 1938 and, as the lead planner of Hitler's Final Solution, he chaired the Wannsee Conference, at which details of the murder of millions of Jews across Nazi-occupied Europe were toasted with cognac. Doughertywrites of his seemingly hopeless job prospects as an untrained civilian during and unemployment, and his joining the Nazi party through the attraction to Nazism of his fiancee, Lina von Osten, and her father, along with the rumor shadowing him of a strain of Jewishness inherited from his father's side. And wefollow Heydrich's meteoric rise through the Nazi high command-from SS major, to colonel to brigadier general, before he was thirty, deputy to Heinrich Himmler, expanding the SS, the Gestapo, and developing the Reich's plans for ''the Jewishsolution''. And throughout, we hear the voice of Lina Heydrich, who was by his side until his death at the age of thirty-eight, living inside the Nazi inner circles as she waltzed with Rudolf Hess, feuded with Hermann Goring, and drank vintage wine with Albert Speer.
Description
An astonishing journey into the heart of Nazi evil; a portrait of one of the darkest figures of Hitler's Nazi elite, the designer and executor of the Holocaust, chief of the Reich Main Security, including the Gestapo; interwoven with commentary by Reinhard Heydrich's wife, from the author's in-depth interviews. He was called the Hangman of the Gestapo, the ''butcher of Prague,''with a reputation as a ruthlessly efficient killer. He was the head of the SS, and the Gestapo, second in command to Heinrich Himmler. His orders set in motionthe Kristallnacht pogrom of 1938 and, as the lead planner of Hitler's Final Solution, he chaired the Wannsee Conference, at which details of the murder of millions of Jews across Nazi-occupied Europe were toasted with cognac. Doughertywrites of his seemingly hopeless job prospects as an untrained civilian during and unemployment, and his joining the Nazi party through the attraction to Nazism of his fiancee, Lina von Osten, and her father, along with the rumor shadowing him of a strain of Jewishness inherited from his father's side. And wefollow Heydrich's meteoric rise through the Nazi high command-from SS major, to colonel to brigadier general, before he was thirty, deputy to Heinrich Himmler, expanding the SS, the Gestapo, and developing the Reich's plans for ''the Jewishsolution''. And throughout, we hear the voice of Lina Heydrich, who was by his side until his death at the age of thirty-eight, living inside the Nazi inner circles as she waltzed with Rudolf Hess, feuded with Hermann Goring, and drank vintage wine with Albert Speer.
