Reinhard Heydrich

Born: 1904-03-07

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 Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia. In August 1940, he was appointed and served as President of Interpol. Heydrich chaired the 1942 Wannsee Conference, which discussed plans for the deportation and extermination of all Jews in German-occupied territory. In Operation Anthropoid, he was attacked in Prague on May 27, 1942, by British-trained Slovak and Czech agents. He died approximately one week later due to his injuries.


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Night and Fog

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1956-04-29

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

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Hitler: A Career

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1977-07-08

A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of...

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Distant Journey

as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Released: 1949-06-03

Prague, during World War II. Hana Kaufmann, a Jewish ophthalmologist, marries Dr. Antonín Bureš,...

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Dawn of the Nazis

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2017-01-01

How Germany was when its people entered the nightmare of World War II? Despair and fear lead a...

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The Gestapo: Hitler's Secret Police

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1991-12-31

The rise and fall of Nazi Germany's terrifying secret police force from 1933 through 1945.

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Death in Focus

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1989-01-02

Death in all it's faces and stages. From the horrors of Buchenwald to the devastation of...

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Hitler's bodyguard

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 2010-02-12

Adolf Hitler caused the deaths of fifty million people. An entire nation followed him to ruin....

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Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 2011-10-25

Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was a mediocre who rose to power because of the blindness and ignorance...

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Dead Men's Secrets

as uncredited
First aired: 2002-05-14

A series that discusses secrets and mysteries during wars in the 20th century.

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