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The rise of the working class threatened the social position of the family, while the inflation of the early post-war period destroyed its savings.... The experience of revolution and financial uncertainty directly influenced Reinhard Heydrich's choice of career... On 30 March 1922, at the age of eighteen, he reported for duty at the gates of Kiel naval dockyard as an officer cadet. | The rise of the working class threatened the social position of the family, while the inflation of the early post-war period destroyed its savings.... The experience of revolution and financial uncertainty directly influenced Reinhard Heydrich's choice of career... On 30 March 1922, at the age of eighteen, he reported for duty at the gates of Kiel naval dockyard as an officer cadet. | ||
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Revision as of 04:54, 6 February 2020
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Funeral in Berlin
"To debate whether any action was of itself right appeared so stupid to him that it was certainly a question he never asked himself." His was "a cruel, brave and cold intelligence" and his life "an unbroken chain of murders".- Wilhelm Hoettl, member of the Nazi security service, on Reinhard Heydrich
These traits served Heydrich well in the jungle of Nazi Germany where the weakest went to the wall and political predators flourished.
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