ホロコースト立案に携わったナチス高官の墓、掘り起こされる　独

【ベルリンＡＦＰ＝時事】ドイツの首都ベルリンで先週、第2次世界大戦中にホロコースト（ユダヤ人大量虐殺）の立案に携わり、英国で訓練を受けた工作員に暗殺されたナチス・ドイツ高官、ラインハルト・ハイドリヒの墓が掘り起こされていたことが分かった。ドイツ警察が16日、明らかにした。（写真は第2次世界大戦中にナチス・ドイツの国家保安本部長官を務めたラインハルト・ハイドリヒの墓。ドイツ・ベルリンにて）
　警察がＡＦＰに明かしたところによると、ハイドリヒの墓は「１１日～１２日の夜に掘り起こされ」、墳墓発掘の容疑で捜査が開始された。ドイツメディアによると、持ち去られたものはないとみられる。
　ハイドリヒはナチス・ドイツで、秘密警察ゲシュタポを傘下に置く国家保安本部の長官として権力をふるった。他の幹部ほど知名度はないが、強い影響力を持っていた。
　ドイツ第三帝国のエリートの中でもその残虐さは際立っており、マリオ・ディーデリヒス氏が手掛けた伝記「Ｈｅｙｄｒｉｃｈ：Ｔｈｅ　Ｆａｃｅ　ｏｆ　Ｅｖｉｌ（原題）」によると、アドルフ・ヒトラーはハイドリヒを「鉄の心臓を持つ男」と称賛していたとされる。
　ハイドリヒは１９４２年１月２０日、バンゼー会議を招集。欧州のナチス占領地域におけるユダヤ人絶滅政策、ホロコーストについて話し合った。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2019/12/19-08:48）

The grave of a top Nazi who helped plan the Holocaust and was assassinated by British-trained agents during World War II has been dug up in Berlin, German police said on Monday.
The grave of Reinhard Heydrich was dug up in the night between Wednesday and Thursday and an investigation has been opened on charges of disturbing a burial site, a police spokeswoman told AFP.
German media said it appeared nothing was removed.
Heydrich was the powerful head of Hitler's Reich Security Office, which included the Gestapo.
Less well known than other Nazi leaders, he was nevertheless highly influential and was marked out for his cruelty even within the Third Reich elite.
Adolf Hitler admiringly used to refer to him as the man with the iron heart, according to the biography Heydrich: The Face of Evil by Mario Dederichs.
Heydrich hosted the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942 when leading Nazis discussed the extermination of the Jews in German-occupied Europe.
During the Nazi occupation of what is now the Czech capital, he became known as the Butcher of Prague.
His car was attacked with an anti-tank mine in the city on May 27, 1942 by Czechoslovak agents trained by Britain's secret Special Operations Executive.
Heydrich died of his injuries a few days later.
His body was brought back to Berlin and buried in the city's Invalidenfriedhof, a military cemetery.
During the Cold War, the cemetery became a no-man's land along the Berlin Wall and his grave -- along with the ones of other top Nazis -- was dismantled.
But Heydrich's remains were never disinterred and the location of the grave was an open secret.
In 2000, a group of anti-fascists said they had opened up the grave of Nazi stormtrooper Horst Wessel in Berlin, taken his skull and thrown it into the Spree River, according to the Tagesspiegel newspaper.
Police at the time said no remains were stolen.