#Lina Heydrich

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VISITA A PRAGA REINHARD HEYDRICH Y LA OPERACIÓN ANTHROPOID 

En la anterior entrada del blog os he dejado un breve timeline sobre Praga. Hoy quiero pararme en un hecho que tuvo lugar durante la época nazi. No es mi especialidad esta etapa de la Historia, por lo que pido disculpas por no extenderme más allá de lo que ha sido mi interés y la curiosidad que me movió a conocer el sitio donde tuvo lugar este hecho histórico. Continue reading VISITA A PRAGA…

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Nancy Dougherty „Mąż, ojciec, zbrodniarz. Prywatne życie Reinharda Heydricha”

Wydawnictwo Prószyński i S-ka, 2024 Fascynująca, a także pod wieloma względami nietypowa biografia Reinharda Heydricha, ukazała się nakładem Wydawnictwa Prószyński i S-ka. Warto przytoczyć na wstępie historię powstania samej książki. Jej autorka oparła się w dużym stopniu na rozmowach prowadzonych z żoną Heydricha – Liną – zmarłą w roku 1985. Prace nad książką rozpoczęły się więc dość dawno.…

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Reinhard Heydrich

Reinhard Heydrich (1904-1942) was a lieutenant-general in the Nazi SS organisation, Gestapo chief, and head of Reich security. A favourite of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Heydrich controlled all police activity in the Third Reich and was instrumental in carrying out the widespread persecution, detention, and murder of Jewish people, communists, political rivals, and others considered enemies of the Nazi state.

Heydrich was the leading Nazi in German-occupied Czechoslovakia where his brutal regime earned him the nickname the 'Butcher of Prague'. Heydrich was assassinated by the Czech resistance in May 1942. Had he lived, it is certain that Heydrich would have been hanged at the Nuremberg trials of 1945 for his systematic crimes against humanity, particularly his direct role in the Holocaust and murder of six million Jewish people.

Early Career

Reinhard Heydrich was born in Halle in Eastern Germany on 7 May 1904. His father, Bruno Heydrich, was a distinguished musician, composer, and music teacher from Dresden. Heydrich's mother was Elizabeth Maria Anna Amalie Krantz, whose own mother was Jewish. Elizabeth was a humble actress, but it was her Jewish connections that plagued Heydrich's confidence throughout his career as a virulent anti-Semitic Nazi.

Heydrich joined the German Navy in 1922. He impressed his superiors and rose up the ranks, working primarily in communications and intelligence. In his free time, he "was a first-class fencer, excellent horseman, skilled pilot, and a talented violinist" (Boatner, 214). In April 1931, Heydrich was obliged to leave the navy following a scandalous relationship with the daughter of a shipyard director. The girl became pregnant, but Heydrich refused to marry her. Heydrich already had a long-term attachment going on with Lina von Osten (1911-1985), whom he married at the end of 1931.

Reinhard Heydrich, 1942

Bundesarchiv, Bild 152-50-10 / Friedrich Franz Bauer (CC BY-SA)

It was also in 1931 that Heydrich joined the fascist National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) or Nazi Party for short. Lina was a member of the Nazi Party before Heydrich and as anti-Semitic as her husband. Heydrich also joined the Nazi paramilitary group the SS (Schutzstaffel) where he received a series of rapid promotions. Heydrich reached the rank of Obergruppenführer or lieutenant-general in July 1934. Heydrich was a perfect fit for the Nazis:

The very picture of blond Aryan handsomeness…His blue-eyed good looks, athletic prowess, arrogant mien, and musical talent hid a neurotic personality which was deeply divided, uncertain, and treacherous.

(Dear 416)

According to Albert Speer (1905-1981), the Nazi armaments minister, Heydrich was "always neatly dressed, and well bred…capable of unexpected decisions at any moment, and once he had arrived at them he would carry them through with a rare obstinacy" (Speer, 503-4)

Heydrich, who had gained experience working in the department of military intelligence when in the navy, was directed to create an equivalent branch within the SS. The SD or Sicherheitsdienst was founded in 1934. Heydrich was the rising star of Nazism, and in the same year, he was appointed the leader of the Prussian Gestapo, the Nazi secret police. Heydrich's career progressed thanks to him being an "organizer with a genius for intrigue and a greed for power" (Boatner, 215). Heydrich had proven his worth with his organisational contribution to the Night of the Long Knives in June 1934, when the Nazi paramilitary group the Sturmabteilung (SA) was, on Hitler's orders since it was becoming too powerful, ruthlessly purged and its top commanders executed.

The Rise of Nazi Germany, 1919 - 1939

Simeon Netchev (CC BY-NC-ND)

In 1936, Heydrich became the head of a new Nazi organization within the Ministry of Interior, the security police, known as Sipo or Sicherheitspolizei. This effectively meant that Heydrich controlled both the Gestapo and the criminal police or Kriminalpolizei (aka Kripo) and made him deputy to the feared SS leader Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945). The historian H. Thomas describes Heydrich as Himmler's "assiduously brutal yet servile second in command" (40). The Himmler-Heydrich working team operated well together, but Heydrich despised Himmler in private, once telling his wife he imagined him "in his underpants then everything was all right" (Cimino, 54).

Heydrich used his powers ruthlessly to imprison, torture, and execute anyone he considered a threat to the state or his own position in the Nazi Party. Heydrich was not bothered by such conventions as first gathering evidence against the accused, rather, he preferred preventive measures, that is, arresting people who might become enemies of the state before they could do any harm. He pursued a relentless persecution of anyone considered an enemy of Nazi Germany such as Jewish people, communists, freemasons, homosexuals, habitual criminals, and church figures. Heydrich kept thousands of dossiers and index cards on suspects, all carefully colour-coded to indicate which particular offence against Nazism they were guilty of. Responsibility for the Kristallnacht ('Night of Broken Glass') pogrom against German Jews (loosely defined by the 1935 Nuremberg Laws) of November 1938 is sometimes laid at Heydrich's door, but he had long urged Hitler for a more systematic and legally-based persecution of Jews than mere odd nights of terror.

Vandalised Jewish Shop, Berlin

Unknown Photographer (Public Domain)

When Hitler was looking for an excuse to attack Poland, it was Heydrich who organised a false flag mission on the Gleiwitz radio station. In the mission, disguised SS members left machine-gunned bodies to make it appear as if Poles had attacked the German station. Hitler then gave the green light for the invasion of Poland in 1939. In September 1939, Heydrich was duly rewarded with his appointment as head of the Reich Security Main Office or RSHA (Reichssicherheitshauptamt), a new organisation, which meant Heydrich now controlled the Gestapo, Sipo, Kripo, and the SD. The RSHA had three main roles: policing and repressing enemies of Nazism, gathering intelligence, and eliminating those people identified by the Nazis as being racially inferior. In none of these roles was the RSHA limited by any legal restrictions. Heydrich's ultimate objective was to have what he described as "total and permanent police supervision of everyone" (Stone, 164).

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To clear something up about Heydrich, this is not Lina. It is supposedly his sister, Maria. I believe it was the author, Max Williams, who reported it as being Maria. Others have said a girlfriend or female friend.

Either way, it's not Lina von Osten. It's a shame that he ever met Lina von Osten. Perhaps he wouldn't have become the murderous nazi that way.

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Scenario from a Friedrich Paulus book

Бланк Александр. Вторая жизнь фельдмаршала Паулюса Read with Google translate, accuracy not guaranteed.

· Walter, but Sie

An unpleasant conversation at RH’s office

“He was the most terrible figure among our statesmen,” Field Marshal Paulus felt it necessary to share his opinion. “Cruel, cunning, treacherous. I once ‘had the honor’ of being invited to talk to him.” “As you understand,” Paulus emphasized, “a summons to Heydrich was not an ordinary event even for an OKH general. And I went to see him very worried. ......The Obergruppenführer inquired about my wife's health," Paulus continued. "Apparently he knew about her from his wife: Helena Constanze and Lina Heydrich belonged to some kind of charitable society. "Your wife, General, is the object of constant attention from our fashionistas - they say her outfits are as magnificent as they are expensive… Where do you get so much money, my dear?" Heydrich joked. "I, for one, don't have any." Then he wiped the smile off his face. "Our Aryan women are now choosing a strict style of dress - there is a war and the fatherland is fighting," he noted. This was a clear hint at the non-German origin of Helena Constanze - "our Aryan women"… "But I," Heydrich finally dropped the joking tone, "of course, did not invite you to talk about the outfits of our ladies. "We are talking about your future trip to Bucharest and Budapest… We would like to ask you about something…" The Field Marshal fell silent. There was no continuation of the story.

Paulus, without any apparent connection to what was said, remarked: "Someone said it right: everyone imagines others in their own image and likeness. This is a very true thought."

The Field Marshal did not mention Heydrich again: the conversation remained unfinished. Only some time later, Paulus's close friend, his former first adjutant Wilhelm Adam, finished the story.

After talking about fashions and the modesty with which an Aryan woman should behave, Heydrich got down to business: "So, we have a favor to ask of you." He immediately picked up the telephone receiver and said quietly but rather insistently: "Schellenberg, please come to see me."

The head of the RSHA's foreign intelligence service immediately appeared and told Paulus in a peremptory tone: "Mr. General, we know that one of your relatives in Bucharest serves as the head of the cipher department of the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We will call him Stefan. Another of your Romanian relatives - we will call her Rosita - married a communist who is in preventive detention. We also know that your third Romanian relative is married to a man who remained in Bolshevik Bessarabia. Finally, and this is the main thing, we know that you, Mr. General, are a true patriot and a loyal soldier of the Fuhrer… Schellenberg fell silent, brazenly examining Paulus's face. Most likely, he wanted to understand what impression he had managed to make on the young general. Apparently, the scout caught the confusion on his face and, considering the issue resolved, stated the main thing without any disguise. - So, in a few days you are going to Bucharest. We cannot guarantee that the Romanians are always honest and open with us. And if your relative Stefan could help us to verify this, we would highly appreciate such a service.

Paulus literally choked with anger. Without hiding his indignation, he asked Schellenberg again: - You wanted me to recruit Stefan for you? Did I understand your proposal correctly? - Well, why state delicate issues so simply, - Schellenberg said with feigned offense. - It's about strengthening the relationship of trust, nothing more. - No, thank you. I'm a soldier, Herr Colonel (Schellenberg then held the rank of SS Standartenführer, which was equivalent to a colonel in the army), and I'm used to speaking frankly, without any beating around the bush. I'm not suited to the role of recruiter of agents, I don't know how to steal other people's codes. My job is to fight, and if necessary, to die for the Fuehrer and the Fatherland.

And then Heydrich, who had been silent the whole time, intervened: - We are not forcing you to do anything, Herr General. Walter simply asked for a small favor. The reasons for your refusal are clear to us, we respect them. After all, you don't want to endanger a close relative of your wife.

And even at that moment Heydrich did not miss the opportunity to sting Paulus. He supplemented the statement he had just made about understanding his position regarding his relative with a clearly offensive phrase: “And such a generous man – after all, he manages the family accounts of the Rosetti family.”

Seeing Paulus’s face flush again, the owner of the office stood up and said conciliatorily: “Let’s forget about this conversation. Walter, you are free to go.”

· Rumors are everywhere

At the same time, there was a version among the officers of the General Staff that Heydrich sent men with sledgehammers to smash to pieces a marble tombstone over one of the half-abandoned graves in the Leipzig cemetery, where his grandmother with a non-Aryan name was supposedly buried."

RH 's paternal grandmother was Ernestine Wilhelmine Lindner, his maternal grandmother was Maria Antonie Mautsch(Slavic in origin, but not Jewish anyway).

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Lina Heydrich - Reinhard Heydrich's Widow and BESTIAL Nazi FANATIC who Turned her Castle into Hell

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Lina Heydrich was born as Lina Mathilde von Osten on 14 June 1911 in Fehmarn, then part of the German Empire. Her father Jürgen was an impoverished German aristocrat of Danish origin who worked as a village schoolteacher and her mother was a housewife. The Von Osten family was strongly right-wing oriented and Lina was a convinced National Socialist and an ardent anti-Semite already from a young age.

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There were at least 2 Eva Brauns on here and one Lina Heydrich. One of them made a post about how Atlantis was real and where the ~aryan race~ originated.

Highlights of being a WWII blog on tumblr c. 2016-2019

Nazis in your recommendations at all times

Always being just two degrees away from people who write rpf of Nazi war criminals / weird white women claiming to be reincarnation of Eva Braun / and other things of this nature

Getting to watch western leftists harass the only decent Russian blog ever off-site because she made posts about the Holodomor and Katyn massacre

Discourse about nuking Japan on my dashboard at least once a week

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First part of a documentary about Lina Heydrich, wife of the Butcher of Prague, Reinhard Heydrich.

One simple woman‘s hatred and intolerance contributed to one of the greatest horrors in recent history.

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Mauno Manninen (1915-1969) was Finnish theater director and artist. He was the second husband of Lina Heydrich.

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Lina Heydrich was cleared during the de-Nazification proceedings after the war's end. She further won the right to receive a pension as the result of a series of court cases against the West German government in 1956 and 1959. She was entitled to a substantial pension because her husband was a German general killed in action. The government had previously declined to pay because of Heydrich's role in the Holocaust.

this is the WILDEST SHIT EVER.... im glad she’s dead but like... die bitch... ‘killed in action’ he was killed by the fighters of the czech resistance movement because he was a war criminal and a murderer and a nazi jeeesus fuck ‘killed in action’?? oh.. my... god.. source is wiki lmfao

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Heydrich is driving down the road with Lina and notices he has laid an egg.

"Holy shit." he has said. "An egg!"

The egg hatches and it is Schellenberg.

Heydrich cocks his gun and shoots.

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Paeffgen's interrogation on 8 Jan 1948, among regular questions on his and WS's career timeline the interrogator suddenly inserted something more like a gossip magazine interview:

F. What was the relationship between Schellenberg and Heydrich? Not to speak of Lina. A. As far as I know, Schellenberg found favour with Heydrich on a professional level. F. Wolff said that he was Heydrich's best pupil. A. I know from the time when I was under his command that he often scolded HEYDRICH for oppressing him. On the other hand, I also know that he thought quite highly of Heydrich and said … F. After all, HEYDRICH was his protector. A. He often complained to me how Heydrich shouted at him. F. But in a very charming way. A. I wouldn't like to call him charming as a characteristic. F. From when did you subordinate to Schellenberg again? A. From August 1942 until the end of the war.

Translated with Deepl and with manual correction

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I was tagged by @janzoo - thank you! Here we go:

Rules: Tag 9 people you would like to know better/catch up with

Last Song: Plastic Doll (Lady Gaga)

Last Movie: Ehh... Mean Girls, I believe... 😄

Currently Watching: Nothing right now, but I’m getting ready for the rewatch of ‘Allo ‘Allo 😄

Currently Reading: Leben mit einem Kriegsverbrecher/Life with a War Criminal, a memoir of Lina Heydrich - of course CZ translation

Currently Craving: masala chai

Aaand I’m tagging @akishito, @wackylurker, @akhuna, @lenkalost, @moonwich, @kivihattu, @geraltsbeard... and everyone else who wants to do this

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Book Review

So much of my time has been spent doing research or writing. The latest thing I read was...

Nazi Wives by James Wyllie

For those not in the know, I have been working on an honest to god novel that takes place in Nazi Germany starting in 1942. One of the things that has been difficult has been finding out about the wives/mistresses of some of the higher ups.

The books that were out there are now out of print and are extremely expensive. Stuff I find online doesn't always have a way to verify it either.

The book itself was an interesting read. You can see it happening in your mind's eye. However, I find that the author didn't use the best research information/techniques.

Lina Heydrich (I am picking her because Reinhard and Lina Heydrich are both in this piece I am working on) published a book herself in the 1970s. (It is not in English) A lot of what was in the book was ....lets say .....stretching the truth. The author used her book in his own research and writing.

I had to get the book out of England. It wasn't being sold here in the US. However, Amazon Prime covers the shipping.

Interesting? 4.5 stars

Factual? 3 stars.

One of the very interesting things was supposedly Gerda Bormann (Martin Bormann's wife) wanted polyamory to become legal. She wanted her family and his mistress' family to live together in a big home. She wanted to make sure that the mistress had something like a marriage contract affording her the same rights as Gerda.

So there you go. If you are a history buff, you may find it interesting. I wouldn't trust the information without verification however.