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The anonymous tomb of the former head of the SS Reinhard Heydrich in a Berlin cemetery has been desecrated, without any theft being found, as indicated on Monday by the police of the German capital. Heydrich, one of the architects of the 'final solution', killed in an attack in Prague in 1942, had been buried in the Berlin cemetery of Invalidenfriedhof, in the center of the capital.
After World War II, his grave - like that of other leaders of the Third Reich - became anonymous to prevent it from becoming a place of neo-Nazi pilgrimage. "The grave was opened on the night of Wednesday through Thursday," a police spokesman said.
Nothing has been stolen from the grave, according to local media, citing police sources. The authors would have obtained information on the location of the tomb, according to these sources.
Heydrich, deputy of the Supreme Chief of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, participated in January 1942 at the Wannsee conference in which the extermination of the Jews of Europe was partly planned.
He was also deputy governor of Bohemia-Moravia. Known as the 'Butcher of Prague', Heydrich was killed months later in the Czech capital by partisans.
His remains were repatriated to Berlin and Heydrich posthumously received the greatest decoration of the III Reich, before being buried in this Berlin cemetery.
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