Police are investigating what or who dug up the grave of a high-ranking Nazi officer buried in Berlin.
A worker at Invalids’ Cemetery in Berlin told police that he found the unmarked grave of Reinhard Heydrich, an SS officer and an architect of the Holocaust, had been disturbed, according to the Independent. Nothing was removed from the grave, and police currently have no suspects.
Adolf Hitler installed Heydrich as a governor over the lands that now make up the Czech Republic in September 1941. Heydrich cracked down on the populace over real and perceived threats to the German Reich. On May 27, 1942, two Czech rebels bombed Heydrich’s unprotected car, the injuries from which led to an infection that killed Heydrich on June 4, 1942.
Heydrich chaired the Wannsee Conference in January 1942. Hitler’s deputy, Hermann Goering, had earlier deputized Heydrich and tasked him with finding a “solution to the Jewish question.” Heydrich’s solution came out of the conference where Hitler’s top officials planned the Holocaust.
Heydrich was buried in Berlin after his death to great fanfare and exhortations by Hitler and other top Nazi officials. His grave’s markings were removed after World War II to deter neo-Nazis.
