🧵 Did you know Interpol was once controlled by a Nazi?
Reinhard Heydrich — Head of the Gestapo, architect of the Holocaust, nicknamed “The Hangman” — became President of the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC) in 1940 after Nazi Germany annexed Austria and seized the organization’s Vienna headquarters.
He used the ICPC to extend Nazi police power across occupied Europe — until he was assassinated in Prague in 1942 during Operation Anthropoid.
After WWII, the ICPC was rebuilt, reformed and renamed Interpol in 1956, formally disavowing its Nazi-era control.