His orders set in motion the Kristallnacht pogrom of 1938 and, as the lead planner of Hitler's Final Solution, he chaired the Wannsee Conference at which details of the murder of millions of Jews across Nazi-occupied Europe were toasted with cognac. He was the head of the SS, and the Gestapo, second in command to Heinrich Himmler. He was called the Hangman of the Gestapo, the "butcher of Prague," with a reputation as a ruthlessly efficient killer.
An astonishing journey into the heart of Nazi evil a portrait of one of the darkest figures of Hitler's Nazi elite, the designer and executor of the Holocaust, chief of the Reich Main Security, including the Gestapo interwoven with commentary by Heydrich's wife, from the author's in-depth interviews.
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