Iconic photo of Einsatzkommando action in Russia
Dr. Martin Heinritz, SS-Sturmbannführer, was born in Schleiz on March 7, 1907. University educated, he was a lawyer and was married. He joined the Nazi Party on January 1, 1931 with Party Number 450723; he entered the SS on May 5, 1939 with SS Number 326384. He won the Iron Cross Second Class while serving in Einsatzgruppe D from November 1942 to September 1943. Martin Heinritz was killed on May 1, 1944 during an Allied bombing raid on Berlin. (The Field Men: The SS Officers Who Led the Einsatzkommandos – the Nazi Mobile Killing Units)
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Reinhard Heydrich
Reinhard Heydrich, SS-Obergruppenführer, born March 7, 1904 in Halle, member of the post-World War I Maercker Freikorps, commander of the Security Police, the Security Service (SD) and the Gestapo, Deputy Reich Protector for Bohemia and Moravia, organizer and major figure in the Wannsee Conference on the Final Solution, ambushed by Czech resistance fighters on May 27, 1942, died of bomb shrapnel wounds and infection June 4, 1942 in Prague, on Gregor Strasser after he had been shot in the purge known as the Night of the Long Knives: “Let the swine bleed to death.” (2,000 Quotes From Hitler’s 1,000-Year Reich)