Offered for sale is a rare original letter about a group of enemies of the Reich
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 Czechoslovak 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]
Reinhard Heydrich sent this 3-page letter, typed on his official Gestapo letterhead, from his office in the Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse 8 in Berlin on 9 January 1937 to the Stabsamt Generaloberst Göring in Berlin, Leipzigerstr. 5. It deals about the arrest of Willi Daugs and Josef Veltjens, two weapons dealers. Veltjens was a pilot in the Spanish civil war who was awarded the Pour Le Merit (just like Göring in WWI) and who was, because of his connections as a weapons dealer, an important asset for Konteradmiral Canaris, the chief of the German Abwehr (military intelligence). Daugs was accused to have delivered weapons to the Spanish Communists during the civil war and, according to Heydrich, he protected his friend Veltjens out of some wrong loyalty to his friend when he was accused of treason against Germany when he forwarded information about the Abwehr and the Gestapo to the Communist enemy in Spain. Daugs and anothersuspect, Hans Holtzermann were released from custody. We don’t know anything about what happened to the main suspect, Veltjens. Signed by Heydrich with a bold ink signature.
A very interesting document of historical significance.
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