Reinhard Heydrich

Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich also known as The Hangman was a highranking German Nazi official He was SS Obergruppenführer and General der Polizei chief of the Reich Main Security Office and Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia In August 1940 he was appointed and served as President of Interpol Heydrich chaired the 1942 Wannsee Conference which discussed plans for the deportation and extermination of all Jews in Germanoccupied territory In Operation Anthropoid he was attacked in Prague on May 27 1942 by Britishtrained Slovak and Czech agents He died approximately one week later due to his injuries