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In WWII a couple of Czech partisans attempted to
assassinate a particularly vicious and high ranging SS officer,...


Reinhard Heydrich

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Heydrich


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (sometimes incorrectly spelled as
Reinhardt, March 7, 1904 - June 4, 1942) was an obergruppenführer
(general) in the Nazi German paramilitary corps - the SS led by
Heinrich Himmler. He was nicknamed The Butcher of Prague, The Blond
Beast and Der Henker (German for the hangman).


He also figures in the alternate history "The Man in the High Castle,"
by Philip K. Dick.

http://www.philipkdick.com/works_novels_mancastle.html


Plot Summary:
It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who
still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching
is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier
the United States lost a war--and is now occupied jointly by Nazi
Germany and Japan.

This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established
Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the
barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it
Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it
may just be possible to awake.