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How was Reinhard Heydrich able to acquire nicknames like 'the butcher of Prague' and 'the hangman of Europe' when Nazi atrocities were so widespread? Was Heydrich genuinely and demonstrably crueller than his colleagues?

by /u/eeeeeep in /r/AskHistorians

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