Chapter 3 Reinhard Heydrich, Reich Main Security Office: The Nazi Terror Enforcer

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Foreword xi
5. Introduction The Participants: The Men of the Wannsee Conference 1
6. Chapter 1 Biographical Approaches and the Wannsee Conference 21
7. Chapter 2 Otto Adolf Eichmann, Reich Main Security Office: The RSHA’s “Jewish Expert” 40
8. Chapter 3 Reinhard Heydrich, Reich Main Security Office: The Nazi Terror Enforcer 57
9. Chapter 4 Otto Hofmann, SS Race and Settlement Main Office: A Pragmatic Enforcer of Racial Policy? 75
10. Chapter 5 Rudolf Lange, Reich Main Security Office: Academic, Ideological Warrior and Mass Murderer 95
11. Chapter 6 Heinrich Müller, Reich Main Security Office: The Archetypical Desktop Perpetrator 111
12. Chapter 7 Eberhard Schöngarth, Reich Main Security Office: A Practitioner of Mass Murder 133
13. Chapter 8 Josef Bühler, State Secretary for the General Government: A Behind-the-Scenes Perpetrator 152
14. Chapter 9 Roland Freisler, Reich Ministry of Justice: Hitler’s “Political Soldier” 171
15. Chapter 10 Gerhard Klopfer, Nazi Party Chancellery: A Nationalist Ideologue and a Respectable West German 189
16. Chapter 11 Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger, Reich-Chancellery: A Prussian Civil Servant under the Nazi Regime 207
17. Chapter 12 Georg Leibbrandt, Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories: An Academic Radical 224
18. Chapter 13 Undersecretary Martin Luther: Defender of Foreign Office Prerogatives 245
19. Chapter 14 Alfred Meyer, Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories: From German Monarchist to Nazi Desk Perpetrator 266
20. Chapter 15 Erich Neumann, Plenipotentiary for the Four Year Plan: A Colorless, Compliant Prussian 283
21. Chapter 16 Wilhelm Stuckart (1902–1953), Reich Interior Ministry: “A Legal Pedant” 301
22. Index 321