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Reinhard Heydrich Quotes

1904–1942 Germany

Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was a high-ranking German SS and police official during the Nazi era and a principal architect of the Holocaust. He was chief of the Reich Security Main Office (including the Gestapo, Kripo, and SD).

Germany
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Also known as: Heydrich, Reinhard

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The world is just a barrel-organ which the Lord God turns Himself. We all have to dance to the tune which is already on the drum.

Europe is to be combed from East to West for Jews.

We will Germanize the Czech vermin.

Vain as a peacock, but mockingly aware of his vanity, clever, perhaps too clever by half, and contemptuous of the clumsiness of most of his colleagues and superiors, he nevertheless could be clumsy in his use of force and, unlike Himmler, was liable to over-reach himself.

Endlösung der Judenfrage (Final Solution to the Jewish Question)

It is natural that people do not want to be involved with us too much. There is no problem down to the smallest egotistical longing which the Gestapo cannot solve. Regarded in this way we are, if a joke is permitted, looked upon as a cross between a general maid and the dustbin of the Reich.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Reinhard Heydrich (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.