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Part Two: The Young, Evil God of Death: Reinhard Heydrich

Behind the Bastards

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Nazi Control

In 1933, Heinrich Himmler is appointed commander of the Bavarian political police. His job was to arrest every communist and social democratic enemy of the Nazi party. More than 200 people were locked up in the first couple days. Every one of them was beaten badly. Now at this stage, Jews were not the Nazi party's chief priority.

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