ORIGINAL 1941 SS-OBERGRUPPENF. REINHARD HEYDRICH SIGNED LETTER

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VSIGNED BY THE CHIEF OF THE RSHA AND PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT OF THE HOLOCAUST

SS-OBERGRUPPENFÜHRER REINHARD HEYDRICH

SENT TO THE HEAD OF THE SS-PERSONALAMT

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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]

This DIN A4 size (roughly 7-1/2 x 11 inches) document, dated 11 February 1941 by the Chef der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD, SS-Gruppenführer  Reinhard Heydrich is addressed to the head of the SS-Personalhauptamt, SS-Gruppenführer Schmitt who had his office in the infamous Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse 9 in Berlin. In his letter to Schmitt Heydrich complains that there were cases of members of his Sicherheitspolizei and the SD getting promoted by SS offices and/or civil servants who are not authorized to do that and that there have also been cases that individuals Heydrich declined to become members of the SiPo or SD were accepted by servants and/or offices without the proper authorization. Heydrich continues to say that he does not want to make a big deal about the cases that happened in the past but that Schmitt’s people and Heydrich’s people should get together to prevent similar cases from happening in the future. Heydrich, the man Hitler called ‘The Man with the Iron Heart’ ends with ‘Heil Hitler’ and his ink signature. The typed text is fainted a bit, the signature is bold and strong.

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