From there the novel backtracks, backtracks all the way to Heydrich’s family and birth, his upbringing and abortive naval career-cut short after he seduced the daughter of Admiral Raeder-and his entry into the world of Nazism and the SS. The author, French novelist Laurent Binet, begins with an image of one of the assassins, Slovak commando Jozef Gabčík, trying to sleep in his safehouse in Prague ahead of the assassination attempt. He is one of the most powerful and evil people who ever lived, and HHhH tells the story of his assassination by agents of the Czech resistance. The Heydrich in question is Reinhard Heydrich: disgraced naval officer violinist, champion fencer, and connoisseur of the arts model Aryan object of admiration from no less than Hitler himself head of the Gestapo, Criminal Police, and Security Service, and other powerful instruments of Nazi order and one of the architects of the Final Solution. An abbreviation of a German phrase purportedly current within the upper echelons of the Third Reich, HHhH stands for Himmlers Hirn heißt Heydrich-Himmler’s Brain is called Heydrich.
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