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Reinhard Heydrich

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1904-1942. Head of the SSThe SS started as guard detachments formed in 1925 to act as Hitler's personal guard. From 1929 on, under Heinrich Himmler, the SS developed into the elite units of the Nazi party. These Nazi paramilitary, black-shirted storm troops used two symbols copied from Teutonic runes -- a parallel, jagged double S usually used as a warning for high-tension wires or lightning. The SS was built into a giant organization by Himmler and provided the staff for the police, concentration camp guards and fighting units [Waffen SS]. Security ServiceThe Security Service, the SS security and intelligence service, established in 1932 under Reinhard Heydrich and incorporated in 1939 into the Reichssicherheitshauptamt, the Central Office for Reich Security.. In 1939, Heydrich combined the SD and the Security Police into the Central Office for Reich SecurityAlso known as RSHA, the acronym for Reichssicherheitshauptamt, with headquarters located on Prinz Albrecht Strasse in Berlin. This Nazi administrative office was formed in September 1939 from the union of the Security Service and Security Police (the latter also included the Gestapo and the Kriminalpolizei [Central Detective Forces]). The RSHA was initially headed by Reinhard Heydrich. After Heydrich's assassination, Ernst Kaltenbrunner directed the RSHA from 1943-1945.. He organized the Einsatzgruppen [task forces] and was asked by Göring to "implement the final solution." In 1941, Heydrich was appointed Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. On May 27, 1942, he was fatally wounded by Czech partisans. In retaliation for his assassination, the Germans liquidated the Bohemian village of LidiceVillage in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, liquidated in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, protector of Bohemia and Moravia, by Czech resistance on May 27, 1942 in Prague. Male inhabitants of Lidice that were over 16 years of age were killed on June 6, 1942. The village's women and children were deported to concentration camps, some of them later given to German families and germanized. Some of the children were gassed at Chelmno. on June 6, 1942, killing men over the age of 16 and deporting women and children to concentration camps. Some of the children were gassed at ChelmnoKilling center opened in late December 1941 in incorporated western Poland [Wartheland], where the SS, using special mobile gas vans, killed more than 320,000 Jews from Lodz and Poznan as well as about 5,000 Austrian Gypsies incarcerated in the Lodz ghetto. The killing center at Chelmno operated from December 1941 to March 1943 and resumed operations between June/ July 1944 during the liquidation of the Lodz ghetto and January 1945..