[iowamark]

HEINRICH HIMMLER By Peter Longerich. Translated by Jeremy Noakes and Lesley Sharpe, Illustrated. 1,031 pp. Oxford University Press. $34.95.

HITLER’S HANGMAN: The Life of Heydrich By Robert Gerwarth. Illustrated. 393 pp. Yale University Press. $35.

[DesertRhino]

They blowed out Heydrich’s lamp in Prague,,, served him right.

[musicman]

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[iowamark]

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[AlmaKing]

The New York Times pimping for Nazis again. They love all things National Socialist.

[fso301]

Nope. These people will never explain the era in light of nazi neopaganism.

[dfwgator]

Another interesting tidbit about Himmler

Heinrich Himmler's Remarkable Admiration For Islam: "It Promises Beautiful Women In Heaven"

[Leaning Right]

One thing about all this that has always bothered me. It's the low level of punishment that the mid-level Nazis received after the war.

I would suppose that had Heydrich survived the war and had been captured by the western allies, he would have gotten 20 years, maybe life, later commuted to perhaps 8 years or so due to “ill health”. If you look at many mid-level Nazis, you'll find that was often the case.

Of course, if the Soviets had captured him, that would have been a different story. Likewise if the Mossad had caught up with him.

[mosesdapoet]

Heydrich was targeted by the Brits and trained a team of Czech assassins to do the job. If I recall two were caught and killed, the third after threatening to wipe out the home town from where the assassins came from unless hr surrendered did ....After which the NAZIS destroyed the town and murdered all its inhabitants in retaliation...

BTW Who liberated Prague ? It was the White Russian Wheremacht Vasoffs Army ... What was left of 1 million Russians fighting on the German side furnished by Himmler who defeated the SS troops assigned to destroy Prague.... The town fathers in appreciation turned them over to the Russians where most were executed

[Gaffer]

Oh no. Article is wrong. It’s Holder and Napolitano.

[IndyTiger]

I recently checked out the Heydrich book from the library and read it. A very good read, highly recommended for anyone interested in that period.

No question that Heydrich would have been on trial at Nuremberg and would have been hung, had he survived the war. Several of the other defendants, when talking about Kaltenbrunner, said that he was nowhere near as brutal as Heydrich.