BERLIN: The grave of a top Nazi who helped plan the Holocaust and was assassinated by British-trained agents during World War II has been dug up in Berlin, German police said on Monday .
Police opened an investigation after the grave of Reinhard Heydrich, powerful head of Hitler's Reich Security Office during World War II, was dug up in Berlin. Less well known than other Nazi leaders, he was nevertheless highly influential and was marked out for his cruelty even within the Third Reich elite.Adolf Hitler admiringly used to refer to him as"the man with the iron heart", according to the biography"Heydrich: The Face of Evil" by Mario Dederichs.
During the Nazi occupation of what is now the Czech capital, he became known as"the Butcher of Prague".
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