Mystery in Germany: Who opened the grave of Nazi senior Heydrich?
A worker in a Berlin cemetery, where one of the partisans' "final solution" was destroyed by partisans, discovered that the grave was opened. No bones were taken from him, and police are trying to find out who is responsible for this
Mystery in Germany: Who opened the grave of Nazi senior Heydrich?
Photo: Yoav Itiel, Walla! NEWS and Yad Vashem Archives, Editing: Tal Resnick and Snir DabushBerlin police are investigating who opened the unmarked grave of former Nazi senior Reinhard Heydrich, who was assassinated by Czech partisans in 1942. An employee of the Berlin Cemetery found that the tomb was opened last Thursday, but according to police, no bones were taken from him.
Heydrich was a key figure in planning the extermination of European Jews. He convened the Wannsee Conference in January 1942, where Nazi Germany's "Final Solution" was planned. By law, the destruction of a grave is a criminal offense for "serious blasphemy."
At the end of World War II, the Allies decided not to mark the graves of senior figures under Adolf Hitler's rule to prevent Nazi fans from consecrating them. Apparently, the person who opened the tomb had inside knowledge of its location.
A similar case occurred in the Nikolai Cemetery in Berlin in 2000, when left-wing activists opened a tomb that they claimed contained the remains of a Nazi murdered Nazi murdered in 1930, which became a symbol in the eyes of the Nazis and was honored. The activists said they threw his skull down the River River, but police denied it and said the grave was his father's and that no bones were taken.
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Reinhard Heydrich, 1942 (Photo: AP)