Reinhard Heydrich

Reinhard Heydrich was a Nazi and high-ranking SS member that played a key role in organizing the Holocaust. His mother, Elisabeth, was a pious Catholic that took religious education and participation in church life very seriously and his father was a Protestant that converted to Catholicism. Elisabeth led her children in prayer and on Sundays the family attended mass. Heydrich served as an altar boy in the local Catholic church.