Heydrich developed a passion for the violin and carried that interest into adulthood he impressed listeners with his musical talent. He learned the piano and violin by the time he was six years old. As the oldest son, Reinhard was expected to inherit his father's music conservatory and was trained in music by his father. Music was a part of Heydrich's everyday life his father founded the Halle Conservatory of Music, Theatre, and Teaching and his mother taught piano there. Heydrich's family held social standing and substantial financial means. Heydrich's third name, "Eugen", was his late maternal grandfather's forename ( Eugen Krantz had been the director of the Dresden Royal Conservatory). Two of his forenames were musical references: "Reinhard" referred to the hero from his father's opera Amen, and "Tristan" stems from Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. Reinhard was an altar boy, attending evening prayers and Mass every week with his mother as part of the Catholic minority in Halle. His father came from a Protestant family, but converted to Elisabeth's Roman Catholic faith upon marriage. Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich was born in 1904 in Halle an der Saale to composer and opera singer Richard Bruno Heydrich and his wife, Elisabeth Anna Maria Amalia Heydrich (née Krantz). Both villages were razed the men and boys age 14 and above were shot and most of the women and children were deported and murdered in Nazi concentration camps. Nazi intelligence falsely linked the Czech and Slovak soldiers and resistance partisans to the villages of Lidice and Ležáky. Heydrich died from his injuries a week later. He was ambushed by a team of Czech and Slovak soldiers who had been sent by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile to kill the Reich-Protector the team was trained by the British Special Operations Executive. Heydrich was mortally wounded in Prague on as a result of Operation Anthropoid. He was directly responsible for the Einsatzgruppen, the special task forces that travelled in the wake of the German armies and murdered more than two million people by mass shooting and gassing, including 1.3 million Jews. Upon his arrival in Prague, Heydrich sought to eliminate opposition to the Nazi occupation by suppressing Czech culture and deporting and executing members of the Czech resistance. The attacks were carried out by SA stormtroopers and civilians and presaged the Holocaust. He helped organise Kristallnacht, a series of coordinated attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria on 9–10 November 1938. He was the founding head of the Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service, SD), an intelligence organisation charged with seeking out and neutralising resistance to the Nazi Party via arrests, deportations, and murders. Many historians regard Heydrich as the darkest figure within the Nazi regime Adolf Hitler described him as "the man with the iron heart". He served as president of the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC, now known as Interpol) and chaired the January 1942 Wannsee Conference which formalised plans for the " Final Solution to the Jewish question"-the deportation and genocide of all Jews in German-occupied Europe. He was also Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor (Deputy/Acting Reich-Protector) of Bohemia and Moravia. Heydrich was chief of the Reich Security Main Office (including the Gestapo, Kripo, and SD). Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich ( / ˈ h aɪ d r ɪ k/ HEYE-drik German: ( listen) 7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was a high-ranking German SS and police official during the Nazi era and a principal architect of the Holocaust.
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