ORIGINAL 1937 SS-OBERGRUPPENF. REINHARD HEYDRICH SIGNED BOOK

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VERY RARE ORIGINAL BOOK SIGNED BY THE CHIEF OF THE RSHA

AND A 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 27 May 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]

SS Gruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich – his signature in “The German Warships 1815 – 1936“, dated “5 December 1937. The endpaper with a calligraphic inscription “In memory of the first successful maneuvers in 1923 as midshipmen on the sailing training ship ‘Niobe’, including Heydrich’s ink signature, together with seven other signatures of former midshipmen. The ‘Niobe’ was a was a tall ship used by the Reichsmarine to train cadets and aspiring NCOs. She sank during a white squall on 26 July 1932, with the loss of 69 lives. A memorial monument to Niobe was erected at Timmendorfer Strand on Fehmarn island, within view of the site of the sinking. The later Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich joined the Reichsmarine as a midshipman on March 30, 1922, received his lieutenant’s commission in 1926 and, after his service on the liner Schleswig-Holstein, was promoted to first lieutenant. In 1931 he was dishonorably discharged from the navy because – although he was already engaged to his future wife Lina – he is said to have made a promise of marriage to another woman. Shortly afterwards he joined the SS and the NSDAP and was already head of the Sipo at the time of this signature.

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