Operation Anthropoid was the code name for the assassination of Schutzstaffel (SS)-Obergruppenführer and General der Polizei Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Main Security Office, RSHA), the combined security services of Nazi Germany, and acting Reichsprotektor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Heydrich was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and an… Read more »
SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV), “Death’s-Head Units,” was the SS organization responsible for administering the Nazi concentration camps for the Third Reich. While the Totenkopf (Death’s Head/skull) was the universal cap badge of the SS, the SS-TV also wore the insignia on the right collar to distinguish itself from other SS units. On 26 June 1933, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler appointed SS-Oberführer Theodore Eicke the Kommandant of the first Nazi concentration… Read more »
She was the daughter of a minor German aristocrat who worked as a schoolteacher. She claimed that she knew nothing about Reinhard Heydrich’s crimes committed while he was head of the RSHA, or Reichssicherheitshauptamt, Reich Main Security Office. Lina von Osten met the then Naval Lieutenant Heydrich on December 6, 1930, at a gala hosted by the… Read more »
Erhard Heiden (23 February 1901 – c. 1933) was an early member of the Nazi Party and the third commander of the paramilitary wing of Schutzstaffel SS, the Sturmabteilung (“Storm Detachment; SA”). Heiden was appointed head of the SS, an elite subsection of the SA in 1927. At that time the SS numbered less than a thousand men and Heiden found… Read more »
Heinz Hermann Schubert was born 27 August 1914, in Berlin, shortly after the outbreak of the World War I. He went to school in Eisenberg, Thüringen and then again in Berlin Lichterfelde, where he attended also a commercial college. From April 1931 to August 1933 Schubert worked for a lawyer. From August 1933 Schubert worked as a… Read more »