The Hangman and His Wife, The Life and Death of Reinhard Heydrich

An astonishing journey into the heart of Nazi evil: a portrait of one of the darkest figures of Hitlers Nazi eliteReinhard Heydrich,the designer and executor of the Holocaust, chief of the Reich Main Security, including the Gestapointerwoven with commentary by his wife, Lina, from the author's in-depth interviews.He was called the Hangman of the Gestapo, the "butcher of Prague," with a reputation as a ruthlessly efficient killer. He was the head of the SS, and the Gestapo, second in command to Heinrich Himmler. His orders set in motion the Kristallnacht pogrom of 1938 and, as the lead planner of Hitler's Final Solution, hechaired the Wannsee Conference, at which details of the murder of millions of Jews across Nazi-occupied Europe were toasted with cognac.In The Hangman and His Wife, Nancy Dougherty, and, following her death, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, masterfully explore who Heydrich was and how he came to be, and...