Why Another Bio of Reinhard Heydrich?

Dozens of books have been written about Reinhard Heydrich, but still, I believe that this book will be of sufficient value to its readers to write it. First, no book (to my knowledge) about Heydrich captured and analyzed his true essence: him being a serial mass murderer (and thus a serial killer) and a national-sociopath.

Hence, no book is what it should be: a criminal profile of Reinhard Heydrich. This is, actually, a fundamental problem with all books about Holocaust: no one captures its true essence: the Shoah was a serial mass murder.

And thus, has to be not studied (using tools and techniques of the science of history) but investigated (using well-developed tools of serial homicide investigation and criminal profiling available for decades now).

Second, jus about all of these books are not objective, dispassionate history – but the anti-Nazi propaganda that has nothing to do with the science of history. The latter is not about morals (science of ethics is and theology – for those, who are religious) – but about who did what when how and why.  What were the intended and actual results of decision made and actions taken – and if they were different (they often are), then why.

Third, the fundamental problem of just about every history book and especially biography (unless it is a wild conspiracy theory which is not history at all) is that it quickly becomes… well, boring. Which I can not afford – this book is popular history, not an “academic” one (the latter is boring almost by definition).

Boring because readers worldwide years ago got accustomed to reading blog posts and social media posts with each post being no more than 2500 words long and telling a complete story – not chapters many dozens of pages long.

Consequently, to prevent this book from being boring, I decided to break it down into 250 or so “blog posts” with each “post” telling a complete story (a separate fact about Reinhard Heydrich) and all stories together making a coherent, comprehensive narrative of life and personality of Heydrich.

Due to its “blog post” structure, you can start reading the book pretty much anywhere and still obtain valuable knowledge. However, if you want to get a comprehensive understanding of Heydrich – and I sincerely hope you do – I strongly suggest that you read it cover to cover – from the beginning to the end.