The man in these photographs is Reinhard Heydrich.
Heydrich was responsible for organising the murder of every Jewish man, woman and child in Europe.
In 1939 Heydrich ordered Jews in Poland to be imprisoned in ghettos- areas of towns that were sealed off by walls and fences.
In 1941- as the German army swept into the Soviet Union- Heydrich ordered four killing squads [ called Einsatzgruppen] to move from town to village, rounding up and shooting Jews wherever they could find them.
Heydrich personally planned the sites for the Nazi death camps and, in 1942, organised how Jews would be sent to these camps from all over Europe. |
