who was reinhard heydrich
Regarded in this way we are, if a joke is permitted, looked upon as a cross between a general maid and the dustbin of the Reich. Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (7 March 1904 â 4 June 1942) was an SS-ObergruppenfÃ¼hrer, chief of the RSHA and Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia. Heydrich chaired the 1942 Wannsee conference, which finalized plans for the extermination of all European Jews in what is now referred to as the Holocaust. Heydrich was wounded in an assassination attempt in Prague on May 27, 1942 and died over a week later from complications arising from his injuries. Ernst Kaltenbrunner was his successor and saw to it that the exterminations were carried out as planned.