For “The Hangman and His Wife,” her biography of the prominent Nazi Reinhard Heydrich, Nancy Dougherty interviewed his widow. By Daphne Merkin When you purchase an independently reviewed book through ...

Operation Anthropoid was a spectacular mission. It saw the successful assassination of the high-ranking Nazi, Chief of the Reich Main Security Office, and Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia, ...

The exploits of an iconic Nazi illuminate the Third Reich’s ideology and machinery of mass murder in this probing biography. A hawk-faced Aryan poster boy who fended off false rumors of Jewish ...

Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich, also known as The Hangman, was a high-ranking German Nazi official. He was SS Obergruppenführer and General der Polizei, chief of the Reich Main Security Office and ...

Not for nothing was Reinhard Heydrich called ‘Hitler’s hangman’ by the German writer Thomas Mann. In the 1930s, Heydrich headed the German political police, crushing domestic opposition to Hitler’s ...

Motivations for murder A new biography of Reinhard Heydrich argues that decisions to exterminate the Jews were not made in the 1930s but developed in stages, often in response to changing political ...

HE MIGHT WELL have been the cruelest among the many cruel National Socialist leaders. He hated, with a nearly unparalleled passion, all Jews; Gypsies; homosexuals; the Catholic church, and ...

The grave of a top Nazi who helped plan the Holocaust and was assassinated by British-trained agents during World War II has been dug up in Berlin, German police said on Monday. Adolf Hitler ...

BERLIN — The grave of a top Nazi who helped plan the Holocaust and was assassinated by British-trained agents during World War II has been dug up in Berlin, German police said on Monday. The grave of ...

There are few buildings in Prague that are more impressive than the Wallenstein Palace. Built in the 17th century, it is a huge and sumptuous Baroque edifice. Now housing the Czech Senate, the ...

THE LIBERATION OF the Nazi concentration camps at the end of World War II gave the world a new atlas of atrocity. Ever since, place names such as Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen have been synonyms for ...