The Autopsy Of Reinhard Heydrich - What Killed The Butcher Of Prague?

One of the most infamous Nazis of World War 2 was Reinhard Heydrich. He oversaw Czechoslovakia with brutality and became known as 'The Butcher of Prague.' But Heydrich was assassinated in 1942, and in the years after there has been a huge amount of speculation as to what killed him. Some have pointed the finger at Heinrich Himmler as Heydrich appeared to recover following the attack, but then went downhill rapidly. In this video we consult the autopsy report of Heydrich and try to piece his cause of death together.
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[@andycole5966]

Your description of his gross injuries and how they were caused is enough to make the assumption that he developed massive tissue infection, developing into septicaemia. In the absence of antibiotics, which were not available in Germany at this time, this would have been a death sentence, from shock and multi organ failure. No intervention from Himmler's doctor friend would have been necessary.

[@Wodenson]

Thankyou for your videos, always informative, much love from Yorkshire UK 👍🏻

[@TheUntoldPast]

Thanks for watching! Love Yorkshire! Many a fantastic day had at Whitby!

[@frakismaximus3052]

Thanks Dave! Yours is fast becoming my favourite history channel. Regards from Canada 🇨🇦 🇬🇧

[@TheUntoldPast]

Thanks for your comment mate! Trying to mix it up with some different videos now, got stuck in a rut for a while! Hopefully you continue to enjoy! Thanks again.

[@PangurBan-l1s]

He made two mistakes, one he ordered his driver to speed away from his bodyguard and then he told his driver to halt when the attack started. If he had just left his driver do his job he might well have survived.

[@roseanne74]

Heydrich died from classic sepsis. Nobody was needed to step in. I watched my father battle sepsis four times - each time, the onset was as quick as it was in Heydrich’s case. The difference was that Dad had access to antibiotics to treat it. The fourth time killed him. The poison in his blood from so many bouts weakened his heart and other organs too much.

[@etubrutus3501]

Sounds like infection. Possibly sepsis leading to septic shock.

[@gerardleahy6946]

Excellent video. Irrespective of the exact circumstances of his death, Heydrich was no loss.

[@Lee-mx5li]

Great job on video

[@TheUntoldPast]

Thanks for your kind comment and for watching.

[@cryptic6245]

Fun fact he was actually a fighter pilot early in the war🪂

[@bftdr]

and hinmler ordered him to stop doing that because himmler thought heydrich was too valuable to lose.

[@alexbowman7582]

He got shot down behind Russian lines but made it back.

[@cplcabs]

There are no fun facts with Heydrich

[@melodymacken9788]

​@@cplcabs Nicely said.

[@melodymacken9788]

I don't get fun fact of someone so utterly evil.

[@renee1961]

I'm Grateful to learn from your Channel. You are teaching me. Thank You.

[@TheUntoldPast]

You're too kind.

[@VesaGuardian]

At 7:58, you stated that the doctors chose not to administer antibiotics. Antibiotics were not available for Germans just because they were developed in the USA; only at the end of the war were they available for Allied soldiers, and were not available for Germans at all.

[@pnwesterner6220]

Antibiotics were recommended for Heydrich but a doctor blocked administration

[@TheUntoldPast]

Hi - Theodore Morrell the personal doctor of the Fuhrer was the one who allegedly suggested the use of Sulfonamide for Heydrich. Tests on this were conducted as early as 1932 inside of Germany under a different name. It was Gebhardt who refused to administer this. Remember Heydrich was not just any German soldier. He would have been given this if Gebhardt would have taken on the advice.

[@domnick7886]

The Germans had a drug called Prontosil, which contains Sulfonamide. The drug was referred to as an antibiotic. A more known antibiotic was Penicillin, which developed in 1928 . The drug began to be used by the allies in 1942

[@michaelcase8574]

The only medication available were Sulfa drugs that would be of little help with such an infection.

[@richardfisher8426]

I heard that he died from sepsis.

[@michaeltroster9059]

He did die of sepsis from the stuffing in the automobile upholstery. The Germans did not have penicillin, only Sulla drugs, which were not very effective. He suffered in great pain, which was fitting for the SOB…a very, very evil man. At least one Nazi crud who received justice, when so many didn’t.

[@renee1961]

You answered many questions I had about his death. Every video Teaches.

[@TheUntoldPast]

Thanks for your support!

[@justChrisjones]

I knew some Heidrichs in high school. Blond and very beautiful. But not narcissists or psychopath they were very good people.

[@richardshiggins704]

His daughter Silke became a model in a Jewish owned fashion store in Washington DC ? She was very beautiful and the owners were totally aware of her father's past .

[@justChrisjones]

@@richardshiggins704 interesting. One of Heidrich children was a model although male. The other a stewardess on an airline. Michigan

[@dinosaurfun5965]

According to some medical experience, what sealed his fate was the administration of anti-tetanus and anti-gas gangrene injections which is fatal after removal of the spleen

[@kevinbrooks229]

Hendrick shot at the man with the Stein gun with his 9 mm Walther pistol..NOT WITH A LUGAR

[@wolfmauler]

It's likely his Walther was chambered in 7.65, the common German officer's sidearm of the day.

[@robindawtrey9735]

That's STEN and LUGER.

[@roseanne74]

Antibiotics weren’t readily available in 1942.

[@renee1961]

Hello, Untold Past. I hope you're doing well. As ALWAYS, Thank You, for your Excellent, Important, and Informative videos.

[@TheUntoldPast]

Thanks for your support!

[@theemporersnewclothes]

Food for the algorithm

[@TheUntoldPast]

Thanks!

[@jokodihaynes419]

"One would like to be both the one and the other but because it is difficult to combine them it is far better to be feared than loved if you cannot be both"- Machiavelli

[@susanjenkins6893]

This man is the embodiment of true and pure evil.

[@kaisersoze-q8y]

Never know what you would do if you were in that era.

[@frakismaximus3052]

He was a PIECE OF WORK

[@Gregory-xm3jm]

He was excrement and his life a filthy saga.

[@nimitz1739]

I worked with a young guy that looked just like him. He was also a prick😂

[@fredbazoo]

Not really....There are many as bad....if not worse today.....Netanyahu could easily give Heydrich a run for the money...

[@thomasm9384]

They never got all the foreign matter from his body.

[@TheUntoldPast]

Interesting to find this out by reading the autopsy, especially the part about the horse hair from the seats of the car.

[@bftdr]

heydrich's appearance although intimidating was not physically ideal. he had an odd shaped head and his hips were broad. there were plenty of frontline soldiers who would have been better models for the ideal aryan.

[@Ro6entX]

Agreed. And he was actually quite tall, like 6’3 or 4

[@lonestarbug]

Same as Heinrich Himmler.

[@michaelcase8574]

He had the hips of a woman.

[@percyprune7548]

Reminds me of Vladimir Putrid, same evil conscienceless empty eyes - shame he is not dead also. Always thought the idea of the ideal blonde Aryan has funny as the party was led by black haired Hitler. The odd shaped head is also reminiscent of the statues of Tutankhamun's father, Akhenaten.

[@mikecook317]

His death mask makes him look like one of those pointy headed guys. That condition has a real name that I can't remember. But both pointy head dudes I knew were crazy. Not good, funny crazy, either. I mean they were bad crazy. I guess so was Heidrich.

[@Sami1973]

I can only recomend the movie "Operation daybreak"

[@TheUntoldPast]

Will take a look.

[@oleriis-vestergaard6844]

Reinhard died from an infektion he Got when the handgrenate went off doing the assasin atempt - the backseat was made from horseskin and It poluted the wounds he Got from the blast - if the germans had pensilin he could survive the ordeal but as it was an english invention they had nothing to save him and he died . Many years later a danish car collector bought the car and made and order on spare parts from the Mercedes-Benz factory and when they Saw the chassis Numbers they send two men and a suitcase full of money to Denmark in an attempt to buy the car but went back to germans without it 👀

[@greattobeadub]

The Sten really was rubbish.

[@michaeltroster9059]

Agreed..the Stem gun was a piece of junk. One would think, with such an important assignment, the powers that organized the operation would supply the men with more reliable firearms.

[@alanmcmillan1163]

Thousands of the Stens were dropped to the French resistance and were no more reliable there.

[@janlindtner305]

👍👍👍

[@TheUntoldPast]

Thanks!

[@transplant-f3p]

He had been a naval officer and been "kicked out" of the German Navy. He learned to fly but I don't think he was ever in the Luftwaffe. I think Himmler was glad to see him die. He was much more effective than Himmler. One of his missions in Czechoslovakia was to improve industrial production. He was accomplishing this objective. I think Himmler eliminated his likely replacement. Heydrich was smarter and was more useful than Himmler. Himmler had done some things even Hitler consider ridiculous. Heydrich was party in developing the plan for the holacaust. I am not aware of any actions in Czechoslovkia that supported the label "The Butcher of Prague". His increasing of production may have been the reason for the operation to kil him. Heydrich did not fear assassination, and had taken few steps to protect himself. Hitler was reputed to have been angry about his not doing this. Hopefully some Czech familiar with his activities there will have more details about how this label came about.

[@percyprune7548]

He flew fighters in combat in Russia but was ordered to stop as he was too valuable to the Nazi regime.

[@joegagnon2268]

That head shape is untermenschlich

[@peterclark8208]

I’m not a doctor but I’m not sure Germany had antibiotics in 1942 to fight the infection? 🤔

[@scottmccloud9029]

He was definitely not missed by good people.

[@loomson]

The Theory and Practice of Hell, written between June 15 and December15, 1945, by Eugen Kogon, a prisoner and survivor of Buchenwald, writes: "Heydrich was assassinated in Prague; but before he died, he lingered in fearful agony; his spinal cord severed. It is said that during this period he was tormented by his conscience, incessantly pleading for divine forgiveness for the unspeakable sufferings he had brought on hundreds of thousands."

[@georgebrown8312]

Let's hope he did repent and turn to Jesus Christ before it was too late for him.

[@glennbeadshaw727]

I doubt it the man wasn't scared of death

[@ileanaacacostaacosta1813]

Yes he did repent for his terrible crimes his soul is saved which is more that can be say about his other comrades in crime who with a few exceptions never expressed any repentance for their evil deeds and. went to the gallows with no repentance at all

[@Occident.]

More fanciful tall tales by the usual suspects.

[@hgg2577]

@@georgebrown8312 Impossible.. after such crimes / murders of thousands (men, women, child) you to hell, no absolution. See the bible.

[@youarewhatyouare]

These evil horrible people are nothing without power over someone or people or countries as we've just seen in our own reeves rayner are pure evil

[@ileanaacacostaacosta1813]

Albert Speer was not as important and brilliant as Heydrich was to Himmler and what happened to Speer was ordered by Himmler himself because he wanted the power Speer had as Minister of Armaments and there was no repercussion to Gebhard What happened to Heydrich he did by himself and it is reported that Himmler was furious with his friend even Hitler was enraged it could have costed Gebhard his life and in the end he paid for having messed up with Heydrich because Himmler to save him for his many years as friends sent him to Ravensbruck to make human experiments with the women prisoners there with sulfanomide tryingto prove that hedudnt cause Heydrich by no giving sulfanomide antibiotic that was not strong enough to stop the sepsis that killed Heydrich but as a result after the warthe allies prosecuted and sentenced him to death as a war criminal ending in thegallows on June 2 1948 two days before Reinhard s six anniversary of his death ihmm karmama indeed

[@lonecrapshooter67]

Complications from being hit w a grenade

[@savagecub]

Reinhard has a rather large nose for an Aryan.

[@michaelmurphy4387]

Great observation.

[@gladiammgtow4092]

His eyes also. Dudes mixed race as may are I guess.

[@tresco303lithgow4]

He did have a big beezer.

[@johnnyredux4019]

He has a very authoritative look about him, and I believe a very good Prussian nose. Most likely a highly intelligent fellow.

[@angloaust1575]

Yet a family man difficult to Reconcile the absurdity Of such Maybe he didnt do it personally just passed.on The orders to others Like calley at my lai Receiving the.order from Medina!

[@wazzazone]

YEAH

[@ulfhdnr]

I’m curious, what cute names do we have for the Allied leaders who ordered the bombing of Dresden, among other German Cities

[@samsum3738]

Oh dear , another troll comes out of the woodwork .

[@terryboland3816]

There's Arthur "Buttercup" Harris. Snugglebum Churchill. Two obvious ones.

[@zbigniewuramowski4031]

Te semickie rysy, ten nos!! Jaki to był aryjczyk??

[@twisttwister8254]

Im sure he is in Hell with his buddies

[@johnnyredux4019]

In hell....lol...sure.

[@regiment6541]

Reinhard Heydrich❓…yeah not a fan😒

[@felixcat9318]

"What Killed The Butcher of Prague?" Jewish Resistance Fighters!

[@billguyan9626]

A great channel, but some of these medical pronunciations 😄

[@thomasweatherford5125]

Not sure if you’ve made a video like this, but I think it’d be interesting to hear what happened to the children of the leaders of the 3rd reich. Some are well known and some prefer to remain anonymous. I know that many of these people had many kids, anyway - I thought it would be interesting. Great content as usual!

[@dianelevesque137]

He kill so many people

[@johnnyredux4019]

Nothing compared to war criminals like Churchill and Roosevelt, who carpet bombed German cities of no military importance, like Dresden, killing hundreds of thousands of old men, women and children. Oh, but that is swept under the rug.

[@glennbeadshaw727]

The death of Reinhardt was a tragedy this man could have taken the Nazis to the next level Beyond Hitler and we could be living in a nicely regulated world right now but unfortunately we're stuck with this nonsense

[@dolinaj1]

You are disgusting.