Heydrich, the American

Just a brainwave that entered my head:

WI after a recession in September 1903, the Heydrichs decide to move to America
they makes their way to the US by October and decides to settle in Nebraska.

On February 27, Reinhard Heydrich is born in Omaha

any ideas? What would happen in WW2, without "the Butcher of Prague?"
 
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Harry Turtledove wouldn't have written The Man With The Iron Heart, and a lot of people on ah.com would be happier for it.
 
Well its likely that just another guy would take his place with the nazi who may or not be just as bloody, considering he died in 1942 the long term repercussion are hard to know, according to wiki the guy was a gifted athelte (swimming and fencing) so maybe he goes to the olympic
 
Just a brainwave that entered my head:

WI after a recession in September 1903, the Heydrichs decide to move to America
they makes their way to the US by October and decides to settle in Nebraska.

On February 27, Reinhard Heydrich is born in Omaha

any ideas? What would happen in WW2, without "the Butcher of Prague?"

Okay.

February 27, 1904 Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich is born in Omaha, Nebraska, to Richard Heydrich and Elisabeth [later Anglicised to "Elizabeth"] Krantz Heydrich.

July 31, 1917 Reinhard Heydrich becomes Richard Heydrich, Jr., after upsurge of anti-German sentiment after the declaration of war on Germany. Richard Heydrich, now Sr., barely keeps job as music instructor, is forced to tutor on the side.

Summer, 1922 Richard Heydrich, Jr., turned down for appointment to New York music academies. Blaming it on a certain ethnic group that one hardly needs to name, he stamps off in a rage, happening to stumble into a US Navy recruitment station.

Summer, 1925 Seaman Heydrich, R. is accepted at the US Naval Academy.

May 1929 Ensign Richard Heydrich is commissioned in the US Navy, after a successful career on the USNA fencing team where, paired with fellow midshipman Robert A. Heinlein, he won several medals and was considered for the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Olympic Team.

September 1929 Rhodes Scholar Ensign Heinlein is bitter because Ensign Heydrich romanced the girl he was thinking of marrying, but he resolves to study astrophysics at Oxford.

April 1932 Rear Admiral Ernest J. King, newly appointed chief of aviation, manages to secure the services of his talented (albeit bossy) signals officer Richard Heydrich. Lieutenant Heydrich finds time to obtain a pilot's licence while on duty at the Bureau of Aviation.

November 1936 Lieutenant Heydrich becomes an air squadron commander on the USS Lexington. He makes a name for himself as a daring and aggressive pilot, but a bossy commander.

January 1938 Lieutenant-Commander Heydrich is infuriated at being named commanding officer of the elderly four-piper destroyer USS Buchanan. In an infuriating confrontation with his new crew, he declares "War on Rust and Filth".

September 1941 Lieutenant-Commander Heydrich is named commander of VF-6, fighter squadron of the USS Enterprise.

December 7, 1941 Leading the bombers in to base during the return of the Enterprise from her air-transport mission, Lieutenant-Commander Heydrich plows into the Japanese air squadrons. Before crashlanding, with bullet wounds in both legs, he shoots down six Japanese planes, becoming an ace in one day.

The President of the United States in the name of the Congress takes extreme pleasure in presenting the

MEDAL OF HONOR

to HEYDRICH, Richard T. E.

Rank and Organization: Lieutenant-Commander, U.S. Navy
Place and date: During the attack on the fleet in Pearl Harbor by Japanese forces on 7 DEC 1941
Entered Service At: New York, New York
Born: 27 FEB 1904

For extraordinary heroism, distinguished service, and devotion above and beyond the call of duty. Commander Heydrich was flying into the Ford Island naval air base during the raid. Although short on fuel, he engaged the attacking Japanese aircraft, shooting down six and damaging two more, disregarding serious personal injuries. Due to his extraordinary attack, the remaining aircraft of the Enterprise air unit were able to land without significant loss. His extraordinary heroism and conduct reflect the highest traditions of the Naval Service.

(It was not mentioned that while in the hospital, he 1) seduced four nurses 2) objected that a doctor treating his wounds was Jewish, and threatened to kill the man.)


How's that for a beginning?
 

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I'll do a short one...I love alt-bios:p

Richard Tristan Eugene Heydrich was born in Boston, Massachusetts the son of two german immigrants that settled in Chicago after some financial hardships in Germany.

Interested from a young age in flying and music, the young man studied and played the Piano relatively well, and studied singing in his childhood, part of the chorus at the local church.

Come WWI, his father, a german nationalist, was suspected of espionage for his anti-war and pro-german attitudes, and temporarily arrested between 1917 and 1918. After being released, the family moved to Chicago.

After a few studies of mechanics and ingeneering, Heydrich joined the US Army in the hopes of joining the US Army Air Service, the predecessor to the US Air Force and as he saw it, his best chance to fly and do somethign meaningful with his life. He would for a while become acquainted with the man that would be his hero and inspiraton, and graduate the year after him; Charles Lindbergh.

Following Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic in 1927, Heydrich decided to pursue his dream in a different way, by emulating his hero. A few years later, he had befriended fellow aviator Clarence Duncan Chamberlin, the man who lost to Lindbergh in 1927.

After a few years as a pilot and flight instructor, he returned to the United States Army Air service as an instructor in 1930, with the rank of 2nd lieutenant, eventually becoming 2nd lieutenant after a few years. Years of hardship and economic troubles brought about by his insistance on following the footsteps of Lindbergh forced him to drinking and womanizing, but continued with the Air Service until 1939, year in which he was discharged.

A few more years of work in the private sector, mostly for Northeast Airlines and other similar enterprises, he returned to the military after December 8th 1941, but was denied the possibility of participating in combat operations, instead being given new duties as an instructor.

After the war, now with the rank of Captain, Heydrich became involved with the Hughes corporation, as a pilot and advisor, eventually returning once again as instructor and advisor for the Korean war, eventually dying during an exercise in Korea involving an squadron of P-51 Mustangs.


Just one idea, going with the pilot thing...I was going to have him surviving and being made a cop or a businessman, but I got bored...:p
 
Great stuff. Would he continue in the Navy or move into politics?

Personally I can see him becoming a Patton of the USN, afterall his positions in Germany were political by default. A hawk in the newly created CIA?
 
Okay, let's continue.

December 1945 Captain Richard Heydrich is in the dumps. After his refusal to take command of an escort carrier group tasked to serve in the Atlantic, he was shunted off into Naval Intelligence. He spent the rest of the war in obscurity, while others got assignments, authority, and promotions. He spends his time reading up on intelligence agencies.

January 1946: Admiral Sidney Souers, newly named head of the Central Intelligence Group, obtains the services of an officer he remembered. Captain Heydrich impresses the new commander by writing down off the top of his head a sound, well-organized organization chart for an intelligence service. Admiral Souers appoints Heydrich his chief of staff.

July 1946: Souers is relieved as DCI and replaced by Hoyt S. Vandenberg. Vandenberg becomes even more dependent on his chief of staff.

May 1, 1947: Newly promoted Rear Admiral Richard Heydrich becomes Director of Central Intelligence.

May, 1948: DCI Heydrich orders a stepped-up concentration on "Middle Eastern threats". The CIA under DCI Heydrich has already infiltrated a number of Jewish groups in Europe and Asia, and established working relationships with the intelligence services of Egypt, Iraq, Syria, and other Arab states. The explosion of the Exodus on July 12 of the previous year, killing several hundred Jewish refugees bound for Palestine, has been connected to a covert operation engineered by the Office of Special Operations.
 
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