WTF? Who Dug Up Reinhard Heydrich's Grave?

"Was it you, mein Fuehrer?"


Things just get stranger and stranger in Germany these days. Last week, in the evening hours between Wednesday and Thursday, vandals dug up the unmarked grave of Reinhard Heydrich (pictured above right) at the Invalidenhof Cemetery in Berlin. The news has just been announced today. Police report that his bones were left undisturbed, and the grave was covered back up (below).





Heydrich was assassinated in Prague during World War II by Czech partisans who had been dropped into then-Czechoslovakia by the British. He was given a state funeral in Berlin, but after the war, his grave marker was removed. Yet, the exact location of the grave has been pretty much an open secret all these years.



The funeral



During WW II

Heydrich was one of most evil figures of the Third Reich and is considered one of the prime archtitects of the Holocaust.

I would imagine that the German government will now move the bones permanently to a secret location similar to what was done to Rudolf Hess's remains after his grave became a place of pilgrimage for Germany's neo-Nazi crazies. We can also look forward to a rash of Heydrich grave jokes, so I might as well get a head start.