Offered for sale is a rare original 1941 dated letter
SIGNED BY THE CHIEF OF THE SD AND PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT OF THE HOLOCAUST
SS-OBERGRUPPENFÜHRER REINHARD HEYDRICH
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SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich was a principal architect of the Holocaust. He was chief of the Reich Security Main Office (including the Gestapo, Kripo, and SD). He was also Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor (Deputy/Acting Reich-Protector) of Bohemia and Moravia. He served as president of the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC, later known as Interpol) and chaired the January 1942 Wannsee Conference which formalized plans for the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question”—the deportation and genocide of all Jews in German-occupied Europe.
Many historians regard Heydrich as the darkest figure within the Nazi regime; Adolf Hitler described him as “the man with the iron heart”. He was the founding head of the Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service, SD), an intelligence organization charged with seeking out and neutralizing resistance to the Nazi Party via arrests, deportations, and murders. He helped organize Kristallnacht, a series of coordinated attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria on 9–10 November 1938. The attacks were carried out by SA Stormtroopers and civilians and presaged the Holocaust. Upon his arrival in Prague, Heydrich sought to eliminate opposition to the Nazi occupation by suppressing Czech culture and deporting and executing members of the Czech resistance. He was directly responsible for the Einsatzgruppen, the special task forces that travelled in the wake of the German armies and murdered more than two million people by mass shooting and gassing, including 1.3 million Jews.
Heydrich was mortally wounded in Prague on 4 June 1942 as a result of Operation Anthropoid. He was ambushed by a team of Czech and Slovak soldiers who had been sent by the Czech government-in-exile to kill the Reich-Protector; the team was trained by the British Special Operations Executive. Heydrich died from his injuries a week later. Nazi intelligence falsely linked the Czech and Slovak soldiers and resistance partisans to the villages of Lidice and Ležáky. Both villages were razed; the men and boys age 14 and above were shot, and all but a handful of the women and children were deported and killed in Nazi concentration camps. [source: Wikipedia]
DIN A4 size (roughly 7-1/2 x 11 inches) document, dated 11 September 1941 and written and signed by Reinhard Heydrich in which SS-Gruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich congratulates a fellow party member (Pg. or Parteigenosse) and his wife to the birth of their son Winrich. The letter has Heydrich’s bold ink signature and what makes this item especially interesting and even rare is the fact that he signed with his first and last name! In most cases he only signed with his last name.
This is what Heydrich writes:
Sehr geehrter Parteigenosse Paar!
Zur Geburt Ihres Knaben Winrich sende ich Ihrer Gatting und Ihnen die herzlichsten Glückwünsche und hoffe zudem, dass Kind sowie Mutter wohlauf sind.
Möge unser Kampf aus der tiefen Überzeugung der Bluts- und Rassenlehre der Nationalsozialistischen Bewegung eine Umwälzung aus der dunklen Vergangenheit in eine strahlende Zukunft für unsere Kinder sowie deren Nachkommen erschaffen.
Heil Hitler!
Translation:
Dear Party Comrade Paar!
On the occasion of the birth of your son, Winrich, I send my warmest congratulations to you and your wife, and I further hope that both mother and child are doing well.
May our struggle—born of a deep conviction in the doctrines of blood and race of the National Socialist Movement—forge a transformation, leading us out of a dark past and into a radiant future for our children and their descendants.
Hail to Hitler!
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