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HEYDRICH ASSASSINATION FIRST NEWSPAPER REPORT IN GERMANY |
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AN ACTUAL EXAMPLE OF
THE FIRST GERMAN NEWSPAPER REPORT OF THE ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF THE DEPUTY REICHSPROTEKTOR OF BÖHMEN UND MÄHREN, POLICE GENERAL AND SS-OBERGRUPPENFÜHRER REINHARD HEYDRICH |
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Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich was the epitome of Nazi bureaucrats. He did his three jobs enthusiastically with vigor and care - all simultaneously and almost perfectly. He took responsibility for the Geheime Staatspolizei or Gestapo, the Sicherheitsdienst (SD or Secret Service) and only Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler and Germany’s 23rd Chancellor Adolf Hitler had more authority in the Greater German Reich. In mid 1941 the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) was authorized by Winston Churchill to assassinate high ranking German authorities wherever they could be found. Although the British had recognized the Dutch government in exile, they withheld recognition of the democratic Benes government of Czechoslovakia in hopes of requiring President Benes to incite the Czechs in revolt against the German occupation of Bohemia and Moravia. |
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Many Czech citizens received espionage training in England and were air dropped into their homeland to carry out British plans for sabotage and assassination. Few of them survived. Among those who did survive were Josef Gabcik, Jan Kubis and Josef Valcik, who in late May 1942 successfully exploded a bomb against the open Mercedes-Benz car of Deputy Reichsprotector Reinhard Heydrich as he was being driven to his office in Prague. Heydrich was not badly hurt, but as infection from the explosion took over his condition worsened, and he died in Bulovka Hospital in Prag on 4 June 1942.
While Heydrich’s assassination went on to become much bigger news around the world after he died on 4 June, there was plenty of other big news in this edition of the Völkischer Beobachter. |
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That news included the chaos in the battle of Karkov (Charkow in German), Waffen-SS General Josef “Sepp” Dietrich on his 50th birthday, the heroic struggle of the Battleship ,,Bismarck’’, Oak Leaves for the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross of General of Cavalry von Mackensen, etc. This is a very, very rare historic piece of Heydrich and Third Reich ephemera. It has been laminated for permanent preservation. Very good condition. Please read our "ephemera" explanation below. |
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