Himmler’s deputy and Hitler’s favourite was the architect of the Holocaust and a ruthless Nazi responsible for the Einsatzgruppen.
Amidst stiff competition from his fellow tyrants Reinhard Heydrich has a strong claim to be the 20th century’s most evil monster: even an awed Adolf Hitler called him ‘the man with the Iron heart’. For when this tall blonde epitome of the Nazi Aryan ideal was...