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. During the Nazi occupation of what is now the Czech capital, he became known as "the Butcher of Prague". 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.

Source: The Local December 16, 2019 14:03 UTC