HOLOCAUST ARCHITECT’S GRAVE DUG UP IN BERLIN
The unmarked grave of high-ranking Nazi Reinhard Heydrich was forcibly opened recently in Berlin and police have launched an investigation.
One of the key architects of the Holocaust, Heydrich rose to be leader of the Reich Security Office.
No bones were taken from the grave, at the Invalids’ Cemetery, during the raid on Thursday, German police told media outlets. It’s unclear whether anything was taken. In Germany, grave defilement is a prosecutable offence.
Adolf Hitler once said Heydrich had an “iron heart” because he was so cruel.
Serving for much of his career under SS boss Heinrich Himmler, Heydrich died aged 38 in bomb ambush on his car by Czech agents in Prague in May 1942. Germany’s secret police retaliated by razing the nearby village of Lidice, killing hundreds.
At the end of the Second World War the Allies ensured that the graves of leading Nazis were left unmarked, to prevent them becoming shrines to Nazi sympathizers, German media outlet DW reports, but this didn’t thwart whoever found Heydrich’s grave. It is being reported that the perpetrator must have been acting on inside information.