I cannot possibly recommend these two podcast episodes enough.
What struck me about these episodes was thinking about Heydrich within the context of both Nazism and his own time, as a person who engaged in evil for careerist purposes and did so effectively.
(There's also a lengthy discussion of the film "Conspiracy" which is very good and will cause you to sit staring at a wall for several hours afterwards. )
I have a lot of things I think people should read/watch/listen to because it's enjoyable but this is a podcast two-parter I keep banging on about because it's *incredibly important* to understanding both a historical sequence and how we think about it.

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