Was Reinhard Heydrich Justified

Have you ever wondered who was behind the Holocaust, besides Hitler? Reinhard Heydrich was an infamous, world renowned Nazi that instigated the mass murder of a myriad of Jews and never felt remorse. In the article “Reinhard Heydrich”, found on biography.com, Reinhard is described as a “high-ranking German Nazi official and one of the main architects of the Holocaust. In 1939 he ordered the arrest of thousands of Jews by the Gestapo and their imprisonment in concentration camps”. He played a key role in the Holocaust and even received recognition from Hitler for his work. On May 27, 1942, two Czech patriots, Jan Kubis and Josef Gabcik, ambushed Heydrich while in his car and launched a bomb inside, Heydrich was seriously wounded and remained in critical condition for days. His health quickly withered away and he died on June 4th from a supposed wound infection, (“Reinhard Heydrich”). His assassination was justified due to the fact that he supported a terrorist group and

instigated mass murder, even though some may argue that he did good by preventing the Jews from destroying Germany’s government and economy.
Reinhard Heydrich supported the terrorist group known as the Nazis.

He has been described as a man with a brave, cruel, and cold intelligence for whom truth and goodness has no intrinsic meaning; “those who worked Heydrich feared him, as did those who were...under his control,” (MacDonald). He was a high-ranking Nazi who was not only well known among fellow Nazis and Jews but also well feared. He was in charge of jobs such as military expansion, creating and controlling Security Operational Groups(SOG), securing documents/information of Jews, and identifying, arresting, and exterminating the “enemies”(Jews), (“Reinhard Heydrich: In Depth”). Heydrich supported and devoted his life to a terrorist group that based its ideals of the destruction of others, with this information it can be concluded that Reinhard was an evil man whose assassination was necessary in order to terminate the expansion of his terroristic views. Another reason his death was justified was his participation in

genocide.
Reinhard Heydrich took the lives of many innocent Jews into his hands and crushed them harder than anything has ever been crushed. Due to the fact that he served as a German Nazi under Hitler, he was required to abide by their morals which included anti-semitism to the extent of genocide. He took cynical delight in mass extermination of Jews through gas intoxication at Auschwitz in Poland. It is estimated that Heydrich instigated the death of half of the total death count of the Holocaust; 3 million, (Shindler). Naturally, through what humans are taught from birth, murder in any way shape or form is morally and justly wrong; therefore, because of the fact he was responsible for countless lives, the workings of Kubis and Gabcik against Heydrich was justified. In addition, MacDonald labels Heydrich as the cruelest and most brutal member of Nazi Germany in the time of barbarity known as the Holocaust, (1). The cruelty and cold-heartedness of this ruthless soldier enabled him to unremorsefully commit genocide, because of this, an assassination can be seen as a form of finding justice for the victims and families as well ridding the world of a negative entity. However, some may claim his death to be unjustified because his actions were an attempt to stop the Jewish people from ruining the country of Germany.
Breitman says that after Heydrich’s death, several Nazi-supporters blamed “Jewish terrorists” for the attack. They arrested 500 Jews and shot others on the spot, then the Nazi’s warned the leaders of the Jewish community that more events, similar to the mass jailing and on-spot shootings, would occur if they continued destroying the lives of their “noble leaders”, or fellow Nazis. This information alone proves how seriously the Nazis took the actions of the Jewish people and how strongly they believed how much of a negative force the Jews were; so, it is understandable that one may say Heydrich deserved no death for he was solely attempting to save the country; however, no matter what the cause, genocide of truthfully innocent people is forever unjust, thus making Heydrich’s assassination justified. In addition, the article “Ideals of Nazis” discusses how most of what the Nazis used to justify their actions was fabricated and how in most cases, Jews actually assisted in boosting the economy. Therefore, it is unreasonable and unsensible to try and justify Reinhard’s actions to prove his assassination unjust, whereas in actuality, he was guilty of his horrendous actions, making his death justified.
In conclusion, the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich was justified due to the fact that he supported a terrorist group and instigated mass murder, even though some may justify his actions by claiming he was stopping Jews from ruining the country of germany. The two Czech men, Kubis and Gabcik, were justly right in launching the bomb into Heydrich’s car for they were attempting to stop the spread of terroristic ideals and find justice for the victims and families of the Holocaust. Without his death, his ideals might have spread even further into the world which would not have been good.