Richard Overy

‘It was all a fairy tale’: Lina Heydrich’s description of the Holocaust

The wife of ‘the Butcher of Prague’ always denied knowledge of the camps – and claimed mass extermination was anyway impossible

Lina Heydrich with the death mask of her husband Reinhard. [Getty Images]
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  • The Man with the Iron Heart: The Definitive Life of Reinhard Heydrich, Architect of the Holocaust

    Nancy Dougherty, edited by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

    Welbeck, pp. 656, £30

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