-now without a career, heydrich's wife convinced her friend, heinrich himmler, to interview him for a position in the division of the ss.

-he got the job, and started in 1931 as chief of the new intelligence service, and set up office in the brown house, the nazi party headquarters in munich. He created a network of spies to gather information on people to use as blackmail for political aims. This information was recorded on index cards and kept in the brown house.

-in 1933, heydrich and himmler, along with their men, stormed into police headquarters and took over the police using intimidation tactics. After the gestapo was formed, heydrich worked his way to up to head it.

Early nazi career