Lina Heydrich was born as Lina Mathilde von Osten on 14 June 1911 in Fehmarn, then part of the German Empire. Her father Jürgen was an impoverished German aristocrat of Danish origin who worked as a village schoolteacher and her mother was a housewife. The Von Osten family was strongly right-wing oriented and Lina was a convinced National Socialist and an ardent anti-Semite already from a young age.
Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party came into power in January 1933. Soon after their assumption of power, Nazi leaders began to make good on their pledge to persecute German Jews. When Himmler was appointed commander of the Bavarian political police detective force on April 1, 1933, he appointed Heydrich as his deputy.
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The 15th of March 1939. Six months after the annexation of the Sudetenland, a border area of Czechoslovakia containing an ethnic German majority, Nazi Germany, in flagrant violation of the Munich Agreement, invades and occupies the Czech provinces of Bohemia and Moravia. Adolf Hitler himself arrives in Prague and on the 16th of March,
By a proclamation from Prague Castle, establishes the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. In September 1941 Reinhard Heydrich becomes a new acting Reich Protector and he arrives in Prague with his wife who is a fanatical Nazi. After his assassination one year later
She will remain at her Czech castle in which to enrich herself she will use laborers from the Theresienstadt Ghetto and Flossenbürg concentration camp and abuse them as if they were her own slaves. Her name is Lina Heydrich. Lina Heydrich was born as Lina Mathilde von Osten on
14 June 1911 in Fehmarn, then part of the German Empire. Her father Jürgen was an impoverished German aristocrat of Danish origin who worked as a village schoolteacher and her mother was a housewife. The Von Osten family was strongly right-wing oriented and
Lina was a convinced National Socialist and an ardent anti-Semite already from a young age. In 1927 Lina graduated from school in Oldenburg and in 1928 she began training as a trade teacher in Kiel. It was at a rowing-club ball in Kiel where 2 years later on 6 December 1930, she met
A Naval Lieutenant who was known as ambitious, arrogant, and having a passion for women. His name was Reinhard Heydrich. The two became romantically involved and on 18 December 1930, less than 2 weeks later, they announced their engagement. Because Heydrich left the daughter
Of a senior naval officer to whom he had promised marriage for Lina, a military court of honor, scandalized by his disrespectful behavior during his hearing, found him to have dishonored the officer corps of the Reich Navy and compelled him to resign his commission in April 1931.
The dismissal devastated Heydrich, who found himself without career prospects. However, under Lina’s influence – and that of her deeply nationalistic family – Heydrich, who was initially indifferent to party politics, moved closer to National Socialism. Lina’s brother
Hans was a member of the Nazi SA since 1928 and Lina herself joined the Nazi Party one year later, shortly after she had attended a Party rally where Adolf Hitler spoke. Reinhard Heydrich joined the Nazi Party and the SS in June and July of 1931. At that time,
Heinrich Himmler, chief of the SS, was seeking to create an internal intelligence service for the Nazi Party. Himmler agreed to interview Heydrich but cancelled their appointment at the last minute. Nevertheless, Lina, a fanatical Nazi party follower, ignored this message, packed Heydrich’s suitcase, and sent him to Munich. Heinrich Himmler was
Immediately impressed with Heydrich who, with his blond hair and blue eyes, had the look of a perfect Aryan. Himmler brought him into the SS in August 1931 and in December of the same year Lina and Heydrich got married. The marriage produced 4 children – two boys – Klaus
And Heider and 2 girls – Silke and Marte. At that time Reinhard Heydrich was working for Himmler who tasked him with developing the Security Service, the SD. By January 1933, the SD under Heydrich’s leadership had become the most significant intelligence agency within the Nazi Party.
Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party came into power in January 1933. Soon after their assumption of power, Nazi leaders began to make good on their pledge to persecute German Jews. When Himmler was appointed commander of the Bavarian political police detective force on April 1, 1933,
He appointed Heydrich as his deputy. Lina triumphantly described the disempowerment of the Bavarian government and the ongoing waves of arrests in a letter to her parents, in which she also wrote: “In the evenings, the SA and SS had their special pleasure. They had the task of arresting all political opponents,
As far as they were known, and taking them to the brown house. That was something for the boys. At last they were allowed to take revenge for all the injustice inflicted on them, for all the beatings and wounds, and to take revenge for their fallen comrades. More than 200 are now arrested,
Some of them Jews. The Minister of the Interior stands in the hall in his socks and nightgown, surrounded by a crowd of SA and SS who don’t know where to go because they are laughing. Then they come and step on the crying Minister of the Interior’s big toe with their heavy boots so
That he hops from one leg to the other between them. You can imagine the picture. The next to be introduced is the Jew Lewy. They make short work of him. They beat him with dog whips, take
Off his shoes and stockings and so he has to walk barefoot to his home in the company of the SS. ” Nine days after his appointment as Reichsführer SS and Chief of the German Police on June 17, 1936, Himmler appointed Heydrich chief of the newly established Security Police Main Office which
Brought together into one agency the Gestapo – the secret police – and the Criminal Police detective forces. With this appointment by Hitler, Himmler and his de facto deputy, Heydrich, became two of the most powerful men in the internal administration of Germany. Lina Heydrich did not get on well with Margarete Himmler,
Heinrich Himmler’s wife. Among other things, she accused her of stinginess, which was aparent in her overly simple housekeeping. Lina Heydrich herself enjoyed the upscale lifestyle that her husband’s rising positions afforded them both. On the night of the 9 – 10th of November 1938, the Nazi SA, SS,
Hitler Youth and German civilians destroyed Jewish homes, businesses, synagogues, hospitals and schools throughout Germany, annexed Austria, and in areas of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia, which had recently been occupied by German troops. 91 Jews were murdered. One of the main organizers of the Kristallnacht pogrom was Reinhard
Heydrich. Lina actively stood by her husband and encouraged him to do even more “for the Reich”. In the following year 1939, it was Heydrich who converted Salon Kitty – a high-class brothel situated in a wealthy district of Berlin – into an establishment for espionage purposes
With hidden cameras and microphones throughout the house. Heydrich had a high sex drive and was a regular visitor to Berlin’s brothels but during his “inspection tours” of Salon Kitty all microphones had to be turned off. However, not only Reinhard Heydrich,
But also Lina herself is said to have had several affairs. Because Reinhard Heydrich’s duties led him to work long hours and often be away from home, Lina would later recall: “I was married to Reinhard Heydrich for 10 years. He was not at home for seven of those years. “
The Second World War began on 1 September 1939 when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. After the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 a previously dormant communist resistance movement in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia started acts of sabotage and
Hitler dismissed Reich Protector Konstantin von Neurath, who was sent on “ leave “ because of his “soft approach” to the Czechs, and appointed Heydrich as acting Reich Protector in September 1941. For the family, Heydrich’s appointment meant a rise up the social ladder. Until then,
He had virtually never taken part in negotiations with Hitler and had always only been in the shadow of Himmler. As the first representative of the Protectorate, however, he negotiated directly with the Fuhrer and was, of course, at the top of the power hierarchy in Bohemia and Moravia.
When Heydrich arrived in Prague, he told his staff: “We will Germanize the Czech vermin.” Heydrich first ordered a narrow wave of terror targeting real and perceived leaders of opposition in the Czech lands. In October and November 1941, Protectorate special courts sentenced
342 people to death and turned 1,289 “over to the Gestapo. Heydrich’s brutal policies during that time quickly earned him the nickname “the Butcher of Prague”. Heydrich also established the Theresienstadt ghetto which existed for three and a half years, between November 24, 1941
And May 9, 1945 and served mainly as a transit camp for Jews on route to extermination camps. After her husband’s appointment as deputy Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, the family moved from the Prague Castle in which they had lived for a few months
To the luxurious and idyllic castle Panenské Břežany near Prague, which had already been taken away from its Jewish owner Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer after the German invasion and was now redesigned much to Lina Heydrich’s satisfaction. As the Protector’s spouse, Lina enjoyed a status that her impoverished aristocratic parents could never dream of.
Of this time Lina later wrote: “I am a princess and I live in a fairy-tale land.” Heydrich was so confident that his pacification program in the Protectorate had succeeded that he flagrantly disregarded measures for his own security and traveled around Prague in an open
Vehicle. On the 27th of May 1942, Heydrich was in his convertible Mercedes when the Czechoslovak paratroopers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš succeeded in rolling a hand grenade under Heydrich’s transport vehicle and wounded the Nazi architect of the Holocaust. Soon after,
With his face pale and screaming in pain, Heydrich was taken to the emergency room at hospital. He developed a fever and wound drainage, and was in great pain. Though not mortally wounded by the blast itself, the grenade splinters in his
Leg and lower back led to an infection that killed the 38-year-old Heydrich on June 4, 1942. Because of her pregnancy Lina did not attend the funeral and their fourth child, a daughter named Marte, was born on born 23 July 1942, shortly after Reinhard Heydrich’s death.
In recognition of her husband’s service to the Nazi cause, especially in coordination of the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question” which was the code name for the systematic, deliberate and physical annihilation of the European Jews, Hitler gave Lina Heydrich the
Castle in Panenské Břežany. She was also granted a large lifetime pension as well as an insurance policy which tuner her into a wealthy woman. A playground and a swimming pool was built and Lina decided to destroy the English park with its rare trees. She sold the wood and planted
Potatoes and other vegetables there which she then sold to the German troops in Prague. In order to run her business she needed workers and in the castle grounds, she set up a miniature labor and concentration camp, where around 150 prisoners from the Theresienstadt ghetto lived
In former stables and worked for Lina Heydrich under miserable conditions. They received little food and witnesses said that she physically abused them and treated her Jewish forced laborers badly. According to later testimonies, she observed the workers with binoculars and had SS guards
Whip those who worked too slowly. She spat on or beat Jewish forced laborers when their behavior did not seem properly respectful to her. It was not until February 1944 that the prisoners from the Theresienstadt ghetto stopped serving in Panenské Břežany altogether. Lina Heydrich,
However, extorted at least some compensation from Himmler: From Flossenbürg she got a group of fifteen Jehovah’s Witnesses. She repeatedly refused requests from their home concentration camp at Flossenbürg, to pay properly for their rent. The matter eventually went so far that Himmler himself began to make payments on her behalf from his own account.
On 24 October 1943, Klaus, one of Heydrich’s four children, died as a result of a traffic accident when he was cycling with his brother Heider in the courtyard of the Castle Panenské Břežany. Seeing that the gate to the street was open, Klaus rode out onto the street where he was struck by a
Small truck coming down the road. Right after the accident, a Jewish doctor who was in the castle work group gave the boy first aid but the injuries were fatal and Klaus died later that afternoon. Lina decided to bury Klaus in the castle garden and the grave was dug by Jewish prisoners.
However, on the eve of the funeral, Lina decided that the final resting place for her Aryan child must not be dug by Jews and by the morning, German soldiers had dug and decorated a new grave. Lina then wanted to have the driver Karel Kašpar and all passengers shot,
But the investigation found the driver not guilty. After the war, one eyewitness recalled having seen Lina Heydrich standing with the guests in front of the entrance to the castle and saying: ‘Das ist alles meine” meaning “That’s all mine”. However, she was wrong.
The family lived in the castle until April 1945 when they, along with many other Germans left the area to flee the advancing Soviet Red Army. Before leaving, she had rabbits, geese and chickens slaughtered and she took the jars of preserved meat
With her. She shook hands with each of the castle staff and promised them a pension as she believed she would return to her castle. However, she never did. In the second half of 1945, Lina finally arrived with her children in her native Fehmarn. In 1948,
The Czechoslovak Extraordinary People’s Court sentenced her to life imprisonment in absentia. For 2 years Lina had to hide from the authorities for fear that she might be extradited to Czechoslovakia. However, the British authorities eventually refused the Czechoslovak government’s request to extradite Lina Heydrich to Czechoslovakia.
During the following decade Lina had only a limited income. Her house in Fehmarn, which had been temporarily confiscated by the British after the war, was returned to her. She repeatedly applied for a general’s pension, even though Heydrich, as an SS general, was not a “soldier” according to the German authorities,
But a war criminal. Eventually, however, she was granted a widow’s pension. In 1965, she met Finnish theatre director Mauno Manninen whom she married for the purpose of changing her last name. Lina then ran Reinhard Heydrich’s former summer house in
Fehmarn as a restaurant and inn. A significant part of its clientele were former supporters of the Nazi Regime who reminisced about the “good old days.” However, the restaurant burned down in February 1969. Her husband Mauno Manninen died in September of the same year.
In 1976, she published a memoir named “Life with a War Criminal”. She repeatedly recalled the period of her life in the protectorate with nostalgia and even at the end of her life, she showed no remorse and refused to admit any guilt of her husband for Nazi crimes. About the atrocities in the
Nazi camps, she said “ It was all a fairy tale’. When Lina died in Fehmarn on 14 August 1985, she was 74 years old. In 1979, six years before her death, she said, “National Socialism was a faith, and I can never renounce this faith.” There were no tears shed for Lina Heydrich.
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It's good to note that his wounds were so severe, that the pain had him screaming.
Bestial Nazi Fanatic? How low do you have to go to get views, she may have been a horrible person, these insults have nothing to do with her, they are opinions, not facts and they describe the mental dispositions of those who profess them much more accurately than of those they target. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence but this is all based on "according to later testimonies" 11:13 or "After the war, one eyewitness recalled" 12:52 etc… so, credibility runs pretty low around here but hey, who cares about facts, if it helps to release tensions or calm frustrations to trash people in hateful comments, then I'm all for it, it's important to relax in life.
Evil Woman
Not only did she escape being convicted for complicity in the crimes of her husband but she kept a pension as the widow of a "victim of war".
„Look of a perfect Aryan“? According to Nazi halfwits only! The Aryan peoples were those indo-europeans who went south to populate (and obviously conquer) for example nowadays Iran and India. The Name Iran is the modern word for Aryan.
So germanic tribes of the north had nothing aryan about them. Intriguingly the Gypsies, persecuted and murdered by the Nazis wherever they could lay hands on them, being of Bengal origin were true Aryans.
Muitas dessas mulheres eram piores que seus maridos nazistas, que eram sicários. Essa narrativa no começo do vídeo falando de família de direita, fica parecendo que esse tipo de gente tem preferência por direita ou esquerda; pura enganação, pois essas coisas também são praticadas por supostos de "esquerda", como Stálin, Fidel e outros. Hitler, Stálin, Heydrich, Fidel, etc., são o mesmo tipo de gente; só mudam as palavras. ☠️
She was a horror!
Please My Friends! Turn To Christ! Please My Friends! Please! John 3:16
so many lies
Why did he drive through PRAGUE in an open car without security guards? But he was murdered by 2 PEOPLE who were trained for this in England and who were parachuted far too far away by the English. Life between Germans and Czechs was too harmonious during Reinhard Heyderich's TIME. But the winners always write the story.
I have footnotes in a few of my newer Bibles letting the reader know that this passage was a anti-Semitic remark by Jesus!
If the Germans turned into monsters, they would be zionists
Good women do exist after all 😍
Thanks for the documentary. Excellent work. I believe she was not extradited over political decisions. So sad.😥😥😥😥😥😥😥
Let me just correct you on one sentence..WW2 started when BOTH Nazi Germany and Bolshevik Russia invaded Poland..!! Let’s never forget the USSR was as responsible for WW2 as Germany in 1939..if Hitler hadn’t hate communism so much and not invaded Russia then Stalin was as guilty as Hitler…
She would have doubtless become a trumper, from the sound of things.
Facism is from the Left not right. Hitler was a Socialist who got his ideas from the Bolsheviks who we're Racist. Nazis, Communists are always Mass Murderers. Vile People with no Humanity.
What an awful robot voice this narrator has
Didn't Rosamund Pike play her in the movie "The man with the Iron Heart"
This time in history is near again.
Nazi's are still here… Satanic industrial proxy armies.
What do you think all this is…
Nazi's in Ukraine…Nazi's in America… For sure Ash ka Nazi's in Israel…
Good or evil the choice of all.
The rich hate the poor
That death by car reminds me of The situation with Gotti’s child.
I am of Czech-Austrian descent, speak fluent English and German and I'm well versed in the history of the Third Reich and the Sudetenland. Feel free to ask me anything that might interest you.
Imagine destroying the castle garden to plant potatoes just to make a few more marks, that prettymuch sums up fortune seekers in any movement. Many of the most horrible things done by the nazis were self serving individuals, just like today when a right wing party makes it in the election of Europe they all fall from incompetence they dont want to do the work and their seats are left epty.
We have Heydrich, Hitler and Himmler as the top 3 wet farts. Now write down just the first 3 letters of the names – you get HEY HIT HIM !!
She and her family were antisemites but she married a Jew Hydrich ,I can't understand how some people work
lmao
The German reprisals on the territory of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, which followed the assassination and especially after his death, knew no peace (this period is referred to as the Heydrichiad). People were shot without trial, and the slaughter of the villages of Lidice and Ležáky was just one of the episodes of German oppression at the time. In total, at least 1585 people were killed in immediate retaliation for his death, which is the figure of the courts-martial, but the total number of victims will nevertheless be significantly higher.
Good afternoon, and again, Thank You for Outstanding videos. Very well done, informative, and Important! I've learned, and continue to learn, so much from your Channel! The Narrator is Absolutely Perfect, too!
She was an Evil creature. No Rest for the Wicked.
3:53 Actually, the German communists were prosecuted first.