On Jan. 20, 1942, Heydrich, deputy to Heinrich Himmler, and Col. Adolf Eichmann, head of the SS Jewish Affairs Office, met with 15 officials -- seven high-ranking officers of the feared SS elite ...

Müller’s superior was Heydrich, and later Kaltenbrunner, each of whom was, in his turn, under the command of Himmler, who received his orders directly from Hitler. When Eichmann entered his new ...

THE HANGMAN AND HIS WIFE: The Life and Death of Reinhard Heydrich, by Nancy Dougherty ... the recent release of over 70 hours of tapes Adolf Eichmann made, postwar, in which he celebrates the ...

Eichmann flew to Vienna in the same plane with the top men in the SS, acidulous Heinrich Himmler and blond, willowy Reinhardt (“The Hangman”) Heydrich, and was given the task of getting rid of ...

High-ranking officials like Reinhard Heydrich and Adolf Eichmann attended, with the aim to determine how to make Germany and the countries it was occupying free of Jews. That “Jewish Question” ...

Eichmann claimed that he and another SS official named Hagen were sent to Palestine by Reinhardt Heydrich, Himmler’s deputy. He claimed throughout his statement that he had pro-Zionist ...

That was Reinhard Heydrich’s fault, he answered, and Eichmann said he knew after that parley he had to carry out orders, since Heydrich was chief of the SS. On the Nazi decision to requisition ...

Eichmann’s own attitude ... categories—which is what Theresienstadt was—was the “idea” of Heydrich; so, indeed, was the whole Nazi ghetto system. The Madagascar plan seems to have ...