Have you ever heard of the butcher of Prague? If you were going to make a top 10 list of the most evil, most irredeemable people to have lived in the last 200 years, Reinhard Heydrich, the butcher of Prague, might just make the list. Heidrich was a Nazis' Nazi.

As a member of Hitler's inner circle, he was arguably one of the most powerful men in the Third Reich.

His resume reads like a brisk summary of many of the most outrageous Nazi crimes.

As the chief of Reich's security main office,

he worked with Heinrich Himmler to oversee many of the most brutal wings of the Nazi police state.

The SS, the SD, and the Gestapo were all part of his purview. As head of the SD, Heydrich was empowered by the so-called

Night and Fogg decree to arbitrarily arrest in secret anyone who was deemed a threat to the Nazi regime.

He personally oversaw the disappearance of thousands of people who were

discreetly arrested, often at night, and were rarely seen again.

Heydrich is considered by many historians to be one of the key architects of the Holocaust.

He was one of the main organizers of the Polgram

known as Crystalnacht in 1938.

Throughout Germany, synagogues and Jewish businesses were robbed, vandalized, and then often set on fire.

An estimated 20,000 Jewish Germans were rounded up and sent to camps, in a mass arrest that is often pointed to as a dark

turning point in the history of the Holocaust. In the same year under the

direction of Heinrich Himmler, Heydrich formed and directed the infamous Ainsat Gruppen.

These were the paramilitary SS death squads who carried out mass executions of Jews, Romani, socialists,

anti-Nazi intellectuals, and suspected resistance fighters, along with a long list of other civilians who may or may not have fit into any of those categories.

At the Heydrich was described like this.

Quote, the satanic forces, which were Nazism,

constructed their own instruments of rule

with thoroughness and cunning.

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