Reinhardt Heydrich was a career officer in the German army. An early adept of Nazism, he collaborated with Himmler in 1931 to establish the SD (Reich Security Service), a political Police responsible for tracking down opponents to the Regime. In 1939, he organized the incidents at the Polish border that served as a pretext for the German invasion of Poland.
As head of the Reich's Main Security Bureau (RSHA) from 1939 onward, he was a policy maker with regard to Polish Jewry, expulsions, and the chief of implementation of the anti-Jewish Nazi policy and organization of the «Final Solution». In January 1942, he participated in the Wannsee Conference, where the “Final Solution” (mass deportation and extermination of European Jewry) was decided. Named Protector of Bohemia-Moravia, he was gunned down by Czech Resistance fighters on 27 May 1942. The liquidation operations of Polish ghettos bears his name: “Operation Reinhardt”.