4/6/2023 0 Comments Reinhard heydrich nose![]() ![]() Described by one contemporary as an “intellectual gangster,” Naujocks had risen swiftly within the SS hierarchy, falling under the patronage of Reinhard Heydrich, head of the German police network and SS security service, the Sicherheitsdienst, or SD. Joining the SS in 1931, he had briefly attended university where he developed a talent for brawling and had his nose flattened by an iron bar–wielding Communist. Naujocks, a 27-year-old from Kiel on Germany’s Baltic coast, had been an early convert to Nazism. (Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo/Alamy Stock Photo) As an early SS recruit, Naujocks (above) became the go-to operative for SS security chief Reinhard Heydrich. ![]()
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