Reinhard Heydrich was a high-ranking German SS and police official during the Nazi era and a main architect of the holocaust. He was chief of the Reich Main Security Office (including the Gestapo, Kripo and SD). He was also Acting Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. He chaired the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, which formalized plans for the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question”.-the deportation and genocide of all Jews in German-occupied Europe. He was directly responsible for the Einsatzgruppen, the special task forces that traveled in the wake of the German armies and murdered more than two million people by mass shooting and gassing, including 1.3 million Jews. Many historians regard Heydrich as the darkest figure within the Nazi regime. Heydrich was critically wounded in Prague on 27 May 1942 in an ambushed by a team of Czech and Slovak soldiers, who were trained by the British. Heydrich died from his injuries a week later.

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