Lina Heydrich

Lina Heydrich (1911-1985) was the wife of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich. A devout Nazi, Lina actively pushed her husband to take a position in the SS in the first place. She bore Heydrich four children before his assassination in 1942.

She survived World War II, and remarried in 1965. Nonetheless, she remained devoted to her first husband, defending him for the remainder of her life, and denying any knowledge on his part about the Holocaust.

Lina Heydrich in The Man With the Iron Heart
As World War II turned against Germany, Reinhard Heydrich went underground in 1944 to prepare the post-war resistance. Lina Heydrich and their children fled to Spain, and never saw Reinhard again.