UNIQUE ORIGINAL 1940-44 BOHEMIA & MORAVIA SS HEYDRICH COLLECTION

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UNIQUE ORIGINAL 1940-44 BOHEMIA & MORAVIA REINHARD HEYDRICH COLLECTION

32 x ‘BÖHMEN UND MÄHREN’

WITH PLENTY OF MATERIAL ABOUT THE CHIEF OF THE RSHA AND PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT OF THE HOLOCAUST

SS-OBERGRUPPENFÜHRER REINHARD HEYDRICH

EXTREMELY RARE MATERIAL YOU WILL HAVE A HARD TIME FINDING AGAIN

Offered for sale are 32(!) issues of the extremely rare and sought after 10-1/2 x 14 inch monthly periodical that was published by the SS leadership in the ‘Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren‘ (Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia), German occupied Czechoslovakia that was ruled by Reinhard Heydrich until his assassination in 1942. Single issues of this publication are hard to find, here is the unique opportunity to purchase a collection of 32 issues (many of them are double issues), all complete and in very nice condition. Offered are ALL 1941, 1942 and 1943 issues plus several issues from 1940 and 1944! As the pictures show, each issue is heavily illustrated and contains plenty of SS, SD, Waffen SS and especially Reinhard Heydrich material, making this collection especially desirable.

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 exceedingly rare collection ships from one of our affiliates in Germany. Includes shipping worldwide.