>All Please forgive my inability to use Japanese font for writing in here. I reside overseas.
>36 Thank you for your information, however I had already read the original edition published in 1978 before. G. S. Graver had also authored the biography of R. Heydrich titled 'The Life and Times of Reinhard Heydrich' (McKay, 1980 ISBN 0-679-51181-4).
>42 Thank you so much for your compliment. It has been my great pleasure to share the information with everybody who visits this thread.
>46 You are quite welcome.
Unfortunately, most of the previously published Heydrich biographies, such as the ones written by Charles Wighton, Alan Wykes, G. S. Graver, Edouard Calic (German & English editions), and Guenther Deschner (English edition)are currently out-of-print. However, if you are in luck, you may still be able to locate these out-of-print books either by using ttp://www.amazon.com or ttp://www.sonic.net/~bstone/booksearch.shtml Incidentally, I myself had used the latter resource.
Calic's English edition is only an abridged translation from the German edition.
>53 The actual sound track of R. Heydrich's voice in 'SS-3'does not strike me as being that high-pitched although this is only my personal opinion.
>61 R. Heydrich had fathered two sons, Klaus & Heider, and two daughters, Silke & Marte with his widow. Marte was born a posthumous child. Klaus, the eldest of R. Heydrich's children was killed in an accident at Jungfern-Breschan in Nov., 1943.
Whiting's biography has a significant factual error. He lists 'Thomas'as the name of R. Heydrich's younger brother, whereas this brother's real name was 'Heinz-Siegfried.'
The memoirs of R. Heydrich's widow> Heydrich, Lina: Leben mit einem Kriegsverbrecher [Life with a War Criminal] (Verlag W. Ludwig, 1976 ISBN 3-7787-1025-7)
I had located this book through a German language book dealer by sheer chance. You may wish to try ttp://www.amazon.com
>71 I really appreciate your translation of what I have written on #66. Thank you so much.
The following titles also might be of your interest> Schellenberg, Walter: The Labyrinth, Memoirs of Walter Schellenberg, Hitler's Chief of Counterintelligence (Da Capo Press, 2000 ISBN 0- 30680-927-3)
Padfield, Peter: Himmler, Reichsfuehrer-SS (Cassell & Co, 2001 ISBN 0-304-35839-8)
Kahn, David A.: Hitler's Spies, German Military Intelligence in World War II (Da Capo Press, 2000 ISBN 0-30680-949-4)
Yeager, Mark C.: Allgemeine-SS, The Commands, Units and Leaders of the General SS (Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1997 ISBN 0-7643-0145-4)
Kersten, Felix: The Kersten Memoirs 1940-1945 (Macmillan, 1957)>This one is out-of-print.
Sure,your booklist is very good and I am afraid not,I think that more two books are. Maybe one is "Heinrich Himmler" written by Breitmann,and another one is "Karl Hermann Frank" written by his brother in 1970th.
>77 Thank you for your information. I remember spotting Richard Breitman's book titled 'The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution' quite a while back, at my local bookstore.
Although I had once been able to view this video clip, I currently can no longer view it on my computer due to some technical reason. [Please do not ask me why since I am not technically inclined at all.] However, you may be able to view it without any trouble.
>13 I heard that Heydrich's widow Lina-Osten run a small hotel somewhere and many researchers or collectors visited there,did you visit there? Ofcourse I wanted to visit her hotel but very sorry she died yet when I knew these facts.
>88 No, I never had a chance to visit Lina Heydrich, nee von Osten while she was still above ground.
R. Heydrich's widow remarried after World War II and was known as Lina Heydrich-Maninnen. She made a living operating a 'Pension' (formerly the summer house of Heydrich family) on Fehmarn Island in the Baltic Sea with her younger daughter, Marte. Twice widowed, she died of cancer in 1985.
>13 In book"Nazi secret sevice",the auther Andre Brissaud said that to say about SD is to say about Heydrich,perhaps I'm sure. Ofcourse this opinion is ture in one aspekte, but I hesitate to think that verschiedene Konflikt insaide NS-Regime all were born from pesonal issue.Maybe there were many political or economical issue in those days.
I have mistyped the punctuation at #101. Speaking of 'The Damned,' is a correct form. Please forgive me.
>103 Although I myself have not read Andre Brissaud's book, it is understandable that he had come to a conclusion that you have mentioned. I would say that R. Heydrich is truly a larger than life historical figure, both in reality and people's images.
>108 Like you said, 'Lady Macbeth' is a great analogy for Lina Heydrich. She was full of political ambitions of her own, and constantly was feuding with her spouse's superior, H. Himmler and his wife.
Anyway, it is still hard for me to grasp the fact that R. Heydrich had fallen in love with this woman at first sight. In my opinion, she was downright ugly even as a new bride according to her photos. Even R. Heydrich's mother thought that Lina was too rough and peasantlike, too. About ten years ago, some American novelist had written an unmemorable historical fiction involving R. Heydrich as a master villain (as a bisexual pervert, to be more exact). [Both author's name and the title of the book have completely slipped my mind. However, if my memory serves me right, the heroine was an American diplomat's daughter who was an excellent fencer.] This author had also shared my (and that of R. Heydrich's mother's) sentiment by portraying Lina as rather homely in his/her piece of fiction. Thus, R. Heydrich's standard of female beauty was one of the biggest mysteries surrounding him, in my opinion.
>110 I am so glad that you share the same opinion. Thank you. I was shocked to see Helmut Griem, yet another actor who looked so convincing as an SS officer in 'The Damned,' portraying Erwin von Rommel of all things in the 1990 TV movie about von Stauffenberg which was titled 'The Plot to Kill Hitler.' [I had rented this movie from my local video store a while back.]
A terrible series of reprisals then followed. The Gestapo offered 10,000,000 Crowns for information leading to the arrest of the assassins, and eventually the parachutists were betrayed by two of their own team, Sgt Karel Curda and Cpl. Vilem Gerik. The Germans recovered enough evidence at the scene of the attack to allow them to identify key members of the Resistance, who were interrogated. Previously, and by accident, they had also recovered a briefcase containing details of Czechoslovak agents who were having false papers prepared, and armed with this information, they pounced. Jan Zelenka "Uncle Hajasky" committed suicide when his flat was stormed by the Gestapo. "Tante Marie" Moravec also swallowed a suicide pill , but her husband and son Ata were taken. Ata was tortured and executed, but Mr Moravec, a railway worker, survived the war. He did not know of his wife's involvement wit the Resistance.
The parachutists (Opalka, Gabchik, Kubis, Sgt Josef Bublik, Sgt Jan Hruby, Sgt Jaroslav Svarc and Valcik) took refuge at the Church of St Cyril and Methodius (Karel Boromejsky) in Resslova Street, Prague, but the information wrung out of Ata Moravec and Curda's statements gave away the hiding-place. On June 18th 1942 the Germans under the command of Gestapo Chief Heinz Pannwitz and Nazi Secretary of State Karl Frank quickly overpowered the priest, Father Vladimir Petrek, and surrounded the church. The soldiers attacked, but they were held off for fourteen hours by the seven parachutists.