REINHARD HEYDRICH

  • WHITE ROSE SIBLINGS PUT TO DEATH

    ByNorm Haskett Reading Time: 6 minutes

    Munich, Germany • February 22, 1943 On this date in 1943 siblings Sophie (age 21) and Hans Scholl (24) and their friend Christoph Probst (24), mem­bers of the under­ground White Rose (Weisse Rose) resis­tance circle, were charged with sedition for writing, printing, and dis­tri­bu­ting anti-Nazi leaf­lets; “tried” by “Hitler’s Hanging Judge,” the noto­rious Nazi jurist…

  • HITLER, AUSTRIAN HEAD TO CONFER

    ByNorm Haskett Reading Time: 4 minutes

    Salzburg, Austria · February 11, 1938 On this date in 1938 Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schusch­nigg arrived in Salzburg for a quick trip over the German border to confer with Adolf Hitler at his Bava­rian Alps resi­dence, the Berg­hof. An Aus­trian native, Hitler had been granted Ger­man citizen­ship in 1932. The following Janu­ary the Nazi Party…