ORIGINAL 1941 REINHARD HEYDRICH SIGNED LETTER TO SS-GRUPPENF. SCHMITT

Offered for sale is a rare original letter about unauthorized promotions

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]

DIN A4 size (roughly 7-1/2 x 11 inches) document with very interesting content, dated 11 February 1941 and written and signed by Reinhard Heydrich in his position as the Chef der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD is addressed to SS-Gruppenführer Schmitt, head of the SS-Personalhauptamt. He had his office in the same building as Heydrich, also in the Gestapo HQ in Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse 8/9 in Berlin. Heydrich complains that it has happened numerous times that members of his Gestapo and SD received unauthorized promotions through Schmitt’s office and that this needs to stop. The letter has Heydrich’s bold ink signature.

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