1. Lina Heydrich defended the reputation of her first husband until her death at age 74 in August 1985 in Fehmarn.
17 Facts About Lina Heydrich
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Lina Heydrich's older brother Hans had joined the Nazi Party and was a member of the Sturmabteilung.
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Lina Heydrich spoke highly of the movement to Lina and she attended a Party rally in 1929 where Adolf Hitler spoke.
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The dismissal devastated Lina Heydrich, who found himself without career prospects.
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Lina persuaded Heydrich to look into the recently formed Schutzstaffel as a career option.
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Lina Heydrich ignored this message, packed Reinhard's suitcase, and sent him to Munich.
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Himmler asked Lina Heydrich to convey his ideas for developing an SS intelligence service.
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Lina later stated that Reinhard Heydrich never read Hitler's book, Mein Kampf.
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The Lina Heydrich's fourth child, a daughter named Marte, was born on 23 July 1942.
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Lina Heydrich sold the other family properties, including the home in Berlin and the hunting lodge near Nauen in the autumn of 1942.
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Lina Heydrich wanted to have the driver and passengers shot but the investigation found the driver not guilty.
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The Lina Heydrich family lived at Jungfern-Breschan until April 1945 when they, along with many other Germans, fled the area before the arrival of the advancing Soviet Red Army.
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Lina Heydrich was cleared during the de-Nazification proceedings after the war's end.
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Lina Heydrich further won the right to receive a pension as the result of a series of court cases against the West German government in 1956 and 1959.
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Lina Heydrich was entitled to a substantial pension since her husband was a German police general killed in action.
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Lina Heydrich ran the Heydrich's former summer house on Fehmarn as a restaurant and inn until it burned down in February 1969, during welding work within the roofspace that caught the thatched roof alight.
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Lina Heydrich vehemently denies that her husband was involved in the Holocaust, and tries to redefine the 1942 Wannsee Conference, where the "Endlosung" was decided, merely as resettling the Jews in the East:.