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Heydrich's Accomplishments

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Heydrich slowly rose to power with his strong determination and ruthlessness. He first joined the Nazi party with an organization of elites who were only selected for their racial attributes. He started out as an intelligence collector for an organization known as the SS (Security Service). He worked day in and day out to recover lost intelligence and gain more about the enemy. With his hard work, he eventually organized a big network of spies who wrote down anything on anyone who might pose a threat to Hitler. Heydrich’s persistence pushed him high up the ranks of the SS until he was finally appointed SS Brigadier General, one of the very few generals younger than 30. He was now the main commander of the SS (Curry).

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One of his biggest exploits was convincing the Soviet leader Stalin to eliminate the Top Red Army generals in return for intelligence on a possible conspiring coup against Stalin himself. Heydrich even planned the personal attack of two of the Nazi’s prized generals because of their opposition towards Hitler’s long range war plans. In 1937-98, Himmler and Heydrich worked endlessly to encourage pro-Nazi sabotage and attacks in Austria. Because of his vicious hate for the Jews, Heydrich organized the Gestapo Office of Emigration. This permitted Jews to leave Austria but at a cost of most of their life possessions. More than a hundred thousand Jews left Austria but at a severe cost to themselves or their family (Curry).

Two years later, Heydrich was given control of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the Reich’s most important centers of industry. Shortly, however, he went back to Berlin “to take care of some unfinished business” (Curry). He had finally decided with other members of the Nazi party, the final solution of the Reich’s “Jewish Question.” Although it would be very costly, they had planned to take all of the Jews out to extermination camps and completely destroy the the entire Jewish

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