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Heydrich: The Face of Evil Kindle Edition

by Mario R. Dederichs (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
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A comprehensive biography of the Nazi mastermind behind the Holocaust and his military career, featuring interviews with his surviving family.

Adolph Hitler praised Reinhard Heydrich as ‘the man with the iron heart’. He admired Heydrich so much that, despite rumors about Jewish ancestry, he considered him a potential successor.

Reinhard Heydrich was undeniably one of the Führer’s most enthusiastic, brutal, and ambitious henchmen and one of the key architects of the Third Reich’s horrific genocide. He quickly rose through the ranks of the Nazi party and became one of the key architects of the Third Reich’s horrific genocide. Indeed, after his 1942 assassination, the murder of more than 2 million people at Belzec, Sobibor and Treblina was code-named ‘Action Reinhard’.

In this critically acclaimed biography, which includes interviews with some of his surviving family, Mario Dederichs creates a complete and compelling portrait of Heydrich’s life. Dederichs details his short-lived naval career, to his work under the SS chief Himmler, his appointment as Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia, and his assassination by Czech agents and the terrible reprisals exacted on the town of Lidice.

Praise for Heydrich: The Face of Evil

“A chilling study of the man who masterminded the Holocaust . . . Heydrich was inhumanely cruel, ruthless, devious, shameless, a sixteen hour a day workaholic who was feared and loathed even by his closest colleagues.” —The Daily Telegraph

“An impressive mix of psychological analysis, biography and historical reporting . . . Dederichs descends into Heydrich’s personal abyss and describes it in a captivating and intelligible manner while not rejecting the scientific approach.” —Die Rheinische

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“…a compelling history of Heydrich, providing a disturbing glimpse into a Holocaust architect, his assassination, and the resultant reprisals.”
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Born in Brühl near Cologne in 1949, Mario Dederichs was an award-winning author, photographer and journalist. From 1976 to 2003 we worked as a journalist at Stern magazine, and during this period he worked in Bonn, Hamburg, Moscow and Washington D.C. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B3FM8G2Y
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Greenhill Books (June 6, 2022)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 6, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1290 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 228 pages
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John
5.0 out of 5 stars THE book to read and to possess if only to make sure there is no other man like this with ANY power, EVER!
Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2013
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An excellent book about a uniquely-EVIL man - at minimum a "man" (and I use that term loosely) whose place in history should be within a chapter devoted to the least-decent and most-destructive, the most-hated (and with good reason) and most-feared "people" ever to walk this Earth during recorded history.

I have oftentimes heard Joseph Stalin described by the word "MONSTER..."

Had THIS "man" realized the level of power, via true "thuggery," that was gained by either foe, Stalin or Hitler, he might very-well have outdone them both in terms of the sheer violence and horror for which they are so well-known.

The book distastefully but correctly paints a portrait of this "man's" far-more-human roots than is comfortably-admitted to have been the case; but just as all Third-Reich arm-chair scholars well-remember the photograph of Heinrich Himmler, at a concert performance with his much-loved daughter on his knee (THE architect himself of supreme-evil), all men, even the "monsters," have, on some-level, a "human" side. It is that truth that all good and even remotely-decent men find disturbing, as well they should.

Books like this, though not-so-nice, are very, very necessary-reading if only to make certain that this is one page from History which is NEVER-again repeated! This book is not anti-this or pro-that propaganda. It is not political. It is mere truth; and, at a time when truth itself seems-to-be a conviction of convenience, a principle that is no longer understood to be an immovable object, this history is a very stark reminder of what CAN happen in a world where such is the case.
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Ericsod1
4.0 out of 5 stars Limited in detail but provides some insight into the man with the Black Heart
Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2018
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A decent overview of the life of arguably the most prolific killer in the NAZI machine. I wish the book provided more detailed information about Heydrich's Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) and Gestapo inner machinations and the people who survived and/or witnessed the persecutions and brutality perpetrated by these departments. For instance, it is now widely known that Hitler purposely cultivated a bureaucracy that often gave conflicting orders from parallel departments to operatives in the field. I believe that this was allowed to keep an air of suspicion between NAZI hierarchy so that no man had absolute power or was indispensable except for Hitler. I would have liked to read more about how those conflicts were handled. Overall, it's an easy read, but noting too shocking is relieved.
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annie
5.0 out of 5 stars those eyes.those cold,cold eyes.A monster.
Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2010
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Ever since I saw this piece of filth in a brief newsreel, glaring coldly at a cameraman who apparently was too close to him,I was compelled to find out just who this evil-looking "human" was. I have read a great deal about the Nazis and the Holocaust,and this soulless creature was a huge part of both.
He was assassinated by two Czechs,and as a result, an entire town was leveled,and all of the inhabitants murdered. Typical Nazi reaction.That he was revered as some sort of "god" bespeaks much of what the German mentality was about in the 30's and 40's. Not all Germans,of course,but way too many. "We didn't know!! We are innocent!!" Yeah.Sure. I won't get into that now,but suffice it to say that monsters like Heydrich were instrumental in convincing the public that Jews needed to be gone. Did they think that the millions of Jews just sort of took off in a huff,and never returned to their country(countries) because they were angry??Just asking.
I'm glad he was killed.I'm sorry that so many thousands of Czechs had to suffer the retribution following his murder.
He was a terrible inhumane monster and I hope he is having a really nice time in the hereafter.
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KB
5.0 out of 5 stars He made Genocide happen
Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2017
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This book covers the life of Heydrich with new insight and detail. There are always new horrors to discover about the Third Reich which never cease to amaze. The levels of bureaucracy and technology that were put in motion during the genocide are beyond our moral imagination. To think that this was conceived less than 100 years ago is amazing. Especially with our modern politically correct society of 2017. Heydrich was so efficient that his assassination was worth the reprisals to the Czech Resistance because of the damage he would have done if he had lived.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good Thesis, Weak Story?
Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2012
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Mario Dederichs' quick trip through the life and career of Reinhard Heydrich suspiciously reflects the quality of Zionist rewrites of Holocaust history - always the bad, little good, and more than enough political spin. To his credit, the author provides sufficient illumination into Heydrich's early days to depict an athletic young intellectual born to upper-middle class parents whose world view was clouded by personal frustration and sociopolitical upheaval. His description of Heydrich's short naval career provides a weak segue which would have us believe it planted the seeds that sowed the whirlwind, turning this gifted violinist into the Monster That Devoured Judah. Afterwards it's mostly a downhill coast for this writer, reciting a litany of crimes against humanity that lead to the Hangman of Prague's assassination near Lidice in the Czech Republic.

It makes us wonder how this tortured soul could have been so shallow, according to Dederich. Why was there such a sigh of relief among the backbiting hierarchy in the Reich after Heydrich's murder? What was all the furor about such a man being considered the Chosen One, Hitler's likely successor? Pretty big shoes to fill for a two-dimensional soulless monster, we might think. And what of Heydrich's deathbed screams of torment, begging God's forgiveness for his transgressions? Not what one would suspect from a fiend without conscience.

None of this is pondered in Dederich's tale, and therein lies the problem. This is good stuff for a politically-correct high school book review. It's all about Heydrich the monster; as for Heydrich the man, Dederich couldn't see the forest for all the Wanted posters on the trees.
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Paul Gilbert
5.0 out of 5 stars both books
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 21, 2013
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both books very good and highly recommended by me to anyone especially interested
"Heydrich" may not appeal to everyone but it is good
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3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 8, 2016
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