The Hangman and His Wife by Nancy Dougherty

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epub | 37.56 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 0394543416 | Author: Nancy Dougherty, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt | Year: 2022

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Description:

An astonishing journey into the heart of Nazi evil: a portrait of one of the darkest figures of Hitler's Nazi elite-Reinhard Heydrich, the designer and executor of the Holocaust, chief of the Reich Main Security, including the Gestapo-interwoven with commentary by his wife, Lina, 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 motion the 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.

In The Hangman and His Wife, Nancy Dougherty, and, following her death, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, masterfully explore who Heydrich was and how he came to be, and...

Category:Historical French Biographies, Fascism, World War II History

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