Zero Mercy: When Heydrich's SS Spymaster Met Czech Justice
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The German occupation of Czechoslovakia began in March 1939, when German forces entered the Czech lands and established the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Alongside the military occupation came an extensive police and intelligence apparatus designed to monitor political activity and suppress opposition. Among the men who became part of this system was Walter Jacobi, a German lawyer, SS officer and member of the Sicherheitsdienst, or SD. Jacobi had joined the Nazi Party while still a university student and later entered the SD, where his knowledge of Czechoslovakia made him valuable to the German security services. Arriving in Prague only days after the occupation began, he monitored Czech political organisations and gradually rose through the ranks of the occupation apparatus. Following anti-German demonstrations in Prague in 1939, Jacobi helped compile a list of Czech student leaders. Nine men were subsequently killed and around 1,200 students were sent to Sachsenhausen concentr
Tags: World History, Walter Jacobi, Reinhard Heydrich, Third Reich, World War 2, Second World War, Lidice 1941, Sudetenland 1938, Sudetenland crisis, Nazi intelligence, The SS, SS men, German SS, German SD, Czechoslovakia WW2, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Václav Sedláček, Jan Opletal, Horst Böhme, Sachsenhausen camp
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