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Heinrich Müller
The head of the S.D. and later R.S.H.A., as well as the central organizer of Kristallnacht, the Wannsee Conference, the Einsatzgruppen, and ultimately the Final Solution, Heydrich was Eichmann’s second-order superior (after Heinrich Müller, head of the R.S.H.A. Gestapo bureau) and answered only to Himmler and Hitler. He was also the one to inform Eichmann of Hitler’s plan for the Final Solution, and Eichmann was elated when he seemed to open up to him in a meeting. He was assassinated in Prague in 1942.
Reinhardt Heydrich Quotes in Eichmann in Jerusalem
The Eichmann in Jerusalem quotes below are all either spoken by Reinhardt Heydrich or refer to Reinhardt Heydrich. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 8
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Eichmann, much less intelligent and without any education to speak of, at least dimly realized that it was not an order but a law which had turned them all into criminals. The distinction between an order and the Führer’s word was that the latter’s validity was not limited in time and space, which is the outstanding characteristic of the former. This is also the true reason why the Führer’s order for the Final Solution was followed by a huge shower of regulations and directives, all drafted by expert lawyers and legal advisers, not by mere administrators; this order, in contrast to ordinary orders, was treated as a law.
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Reinhardt Heydrich Quotes in Eichmann in Jerusalem
The Eichmann in Jerusalem quotes below are all either spoken by Reinhardt Heydrich or refer to Reinhardt Heydrich. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 8
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Eichmann, much less intelligent and without any education to speak of, at least dimly realized that it was not an order but a law which had turned them all into criminals. The distinction between an order and the Führer’s word was that the latter’s validity was not limited in time and space, which is the outstanding characteristic of the former. This is also the true reason why the Führer’s order for the Final Solution was followed by a huge shower of regulations and directives, all drafted by expert lawyers and legal advisers, not by mere administrators; this order, in contrast to ordinary orders, was treated as a law.
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