Trivia

Real historical figure Reinhard Heydrich plays an important role in the first two seasons. While the real Heydrich was assassinated by the Czech resistance in 1942, he survives in the reality of the series. Curiously, Heydrich survival is a recurrent theme in other alternate reality works, such as Robert Harris' Fatherland and Harry Turtledove's In Presence of Mine Enemies. Most historians agree that, had Heydrich lived in a victorious Third Reich, his temper, personality, ambition, extremism and age (he was younger than Hitler) could have made him clash with his superiors, and possibly Hitler himself. See more