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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Also Don Henker would surely agree; since he has twice been faced with the "unfair" question, "What did you really get out of this class?" From the twinkle in his eye we suspect that before long he will get up enough courage to give a truthful answer...

Author: By Larry Hyde, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 4/20/1945 | See Source »

...Henker's Hell

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1942 | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

...about me, or the French saboteurs, or the Dutch and the Belgians and the Norwegians. We've shot or hanged more than 400,000, not counting all who die in tue concentration camps. There's a rhyme in Germany which goes: 'Himmler der Heuchler, Heydrich der Henker' which means 'Himmler the Hypocrite, Heydrich the Hangman.' The countries we've conquered will remember me, the swine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Heydrich's Inferno | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

...Henker. This may have been the animadversion of a man who hated them both. But Reinhard Heydrich is the man of brains and the man of action of the Geheime Staatspolizei, better and more darkly known as the Gestapo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Pattern of Conquest | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

Such is the man who now confronts Europe's rebellious millions. Last summer Der Henker stated his theory of police work: "The complete understanding of the opponent in his fundamental intellectual element, complete understanding of and police inquiry into his organization and its leading personalities, and finally the systematic opposition, crippling, destruction and abolition of this opponent by the Executive power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Pattern of Conquest | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

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