What if heydrich survived

Close mobile search navigation Article Navigation. Volume Oxford Academic. Google Scholar. Cite Cite T. Select Format Select format. Permissions Icon Permissions. Article PDF first page preview. Issue Section:. You do not currently have access to this article. Download all slides. Sign in Don't already have an Oxford Academic account? You could not be signed in. I don't think he was much of a combat leader -- his experience was originally in the navy until he was casheried -- but Sepp Detrich wasn't exactly a great SS general, he was just surrounded by good officers.

I see Heydrich as the same but even better. But he might not have been the circus clown that was Goering. Post by Schmauser » 16 Dec I don't think he would have been taken alive.

He was smart enough to escape but the "big fish" hardly ever get away. So I would say he'd probably have killed himself. He cleraly didn't want to be number two and thru his imense file record he could certanly pull som strings. Best regards, Marcus Karlsson. I don't see him adding in the military adventures of Germany.

Rather I see him as the architect of a number of inhuman ideas. Post by Nagelfar » 17 Dec I personally feel Heydrich was horribly overrated. Post by Schmauser » 18 Dec Why do you think that Nagelfar? Post by Nagelfar » 25 Dec Why do you think that Nagelfar? Post by Marcel » 30 Dec what if Heydrich survives and then when he sees that all is going wrong he uses his elite troops to eliminate other nazi leadership and seize power for himself?

His father, Bruno Heydrich, was an opera singer. He was the director of the music conservatory in Halle, which he had founded in During World War I and its aftermath , Bruno Heydrich could barely keep the conservatory open due to economies imposed by the war. He watched demonstrations, strikes, and street battles in Halle during the last year of the war and the revolutionary chaos that followed.

Reinhard Heydrich earned his high school diploma in the spring of Instead of fulfilling his father's hopes that he would make a career in music Heydrich was a gifted violinist , he enlisted in the German navy on March 30, , less than a month after his 18th birthday. As a naval officer, Heydrich specialized in signals and communications. He left the daughter of a senior naval officer to whom he had promised marriage for another woman, Lina von Osten, whom he would later marry. A military court of honor, scandalized by his disrespectful behavior during his hearing, found him to have dishonored the officer corps of the Reich Navy and compelled him to resign his commission in April His new bride was a fanatical National Socialist.

At that time, Himmler was seeking to create an internal intelligence service for the Nazi Party. Himmler was so impressed by Heydrich's proposals that he brought him into the SS in August and tasked him with developing the Security Service Sicherheitsdienst ; SD. By January , the SD under Heydrich's leadership had become the most significant intelligence agency within the Nazi Party.

In June , the party Deputy Chief Rudolf Hess named it the sole agency authorized to gather political intelligence inside the Third Reich. When Himmler was appointed commander of the Bavarian political police detective force on April 1, , he appointed Heydrich his deputy. Himmler and Heydrich centralized the political police departments of Germany into the Gestapo.

Under Heydrich, the Security Police and the SD was the primary agency responsible for intelligence analysis and executive measures in suppressing numerous internal and external enemies of the Nazi state.

The SD established intelligence departments to study the alleged long-term plots of each of the Reich's enemies:. The Gestapo arrested these political opponents and, where deemed appropriate, incarcerated them in concentration camps using the police authority granted by an order of Protective Custody Schutzhaftbefehl. The Kripo investigated so-called non-political criminal acts and behavior. Kripo officers arrested those whose alleged criminal or anti-social behavior was deemed dangerous to the Reich.

Analogous to the Protective Arrest Order, the Kripo used a Protective Detention Order Vorbeugungshaftbefehl as the instrument of indefinite arrest and incarceration. Heydrich and Himmler had a shared view both of the identity of the long-term enemies of the German race and of the measures to be taken against them.

These "visible" opponents included:. As Heydrich explained in April , racially conscious Germans must realize that.