Felix von Luckner
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Felix Nikolaus Alexander Georg Graf von Luckner, sometimes called Count Luckner in English, was a German nobleman, naval officer, author, and sailor who earned the epithet Der Seeteufel, and his crew
The ensign which Luckner would raise on the Seeadler to convey hostile intent is now on display at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
Seeadler wrecked
Luckner with his wife Ingeborg in Sydney during his goodwill trip to Australia, 1938
Luckner with captain Leopold Ziegenbein in Bremen, 1930
Reinhard Heydrich
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Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich was a high-ranking SS and police official in Nazi Germany as well as one of the principal architects of the Holocaust. He held the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer und Gene
Felix von Luckner
…to the Catholic minority in Halle. At their household, Count Luckner's stories about the cruise of SMS Seeadler inspired one of their sons, a young Reinhard Heydrich, to enlist as an officer cadet in the inter-war Reichsmarine of the Weimar Republic, from which he was dishonourably discharged for "conduct unbecoming…
Heydrich in 1940
Heydrich as a Reichsmarine cadet in 1922
Gestapo headquarters on Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse in Berlin, 1933
SS-Brigadeführer Heydrich, head of the Bavarian police and SD, in Munich, 1934