Reinhard Heydrich

Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (March 7, 1904 – June 4, 1942) was an SS-Obergruppenführer, chief of the Reich Main Security Office, and Reich governor of Bohemia and Moravia. He was nicknamed The Butcher of Prague, The Blond Beast and Der Henker (German for the hangman).

Fiction

The events of the Wannsee conference are recreated in the 1984 TV Movie Wannseekonferenz (The Wannsee Conference)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088377/ directed by Heinz Schirk, and remade in 2001 under the title Conspiracy http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0266425/, with Kenneth Branagh playing Reinhard Heydrich. The Conference was also the subject of a 1992 English language documentary film entitled The Wannsee Conference directed by Dutch director Willy Lindwer http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0393959/.

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1984 - Wannseekonferenz - Heinz Schirk - 2001 - Conspiracy - Kenneth Branagh - English language - Documentary film - Dutch - Willy Lindwer

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The plot to kill Heydrich is central to the plot of the 1998 novel As Time Goes By, a sequel to the movie Casablanca, written by Michael Walsh. (ISBN 0446519006). The assassination itself has been dramatised in the 1943 Fritz Lang film Hangmen Also Die (written by Bertolt Brecht) http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0035966 and the 1975 film Operation Daybreak, starring Anthony Andrews (Jozef Gabcík), Timothy Bottoms (Jan Kubis), Martin Shaw (Karel Curda) and Anton Diffring (Heydrich) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075019/.

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1998 - Novel - Casablanca - Michael Walsh - 1943 - Fritz Lang - Film - Hangmen Also Die - Bertolt Brecht - 1975 - Timothy Bottoms - Anton Diffring

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Heydrich plays a leading role in March Violets and The Pale Criminal, the first two novels in Philip Kerr's Berlin Noir trilogy (ISBN 0140231706), in which Bernie Gunther, a Berlin private eye in the tradition of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe who left the Berlin police when the Nazis came to power, finds his investigations embroil him in the internal feuding of the Nazi high command.

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Raymond Chandler - Philip Marlowe

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Heydrich and the events of the Wannsee conference are also the subject of Robert Harris's novel Fatherland. The novel also portrays an alternate history where Heydrich was promoted to the rank of Reichsfuhrer after the death of Heinrich Himmler.

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Fatherland - Reichsfuhrer - Heinrich Himmler

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The Man in the High Castle an alternative history novel by science fiction writer Philip K. Dick set in the 1960s describes Heydrich as head of the SS and challenging to become Reichs Chancellor after Hitler and his immediate sucessor, Martin Bormann, are dead.

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The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick - Martin Bormann

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