Germany - 1943, 60 + 440, SS Death Mask Stamp, MNH, Bohemia & Moravia, Reinhard Heydrich
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Nazi Germany
1943 Reinhard Heydrich Death Mask Stamp
60 + 440
'Mint Never Hinged'
Mint never hinged with full gum. 1943 Bohemia and Moravia Issue To Memorialize the infamous SS and Gestapo General Reinhard Heydrich.
Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942), also known as The Hangman, was a high-ranking German Nazi official.
He was SS-Obergruppenführer (English: General) and General der Polizei, chief of the Reich Main Security Office (including the SD, Gestapo and Kripo) and Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor (Deputy Reich-Protector) of Bohemia and Moravia. In August 1940, he was appointed and served as President of Interpol (the international law enforcement agency). Heydrich chaired the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, which laid out plans for the Final Solution (Endloesung); the deportation and extermination of all Jews in German-occupied territory.
He was attacked in Prague on 27 May 1942 by a British-trained team of Czech and Slovak soldiers, on behalf of the Czechoslovak government-in-exile, who had been sent to kill him in Prague in an operation named "Operation Anthropoid". He died from his injuries approximately one week later. Intelligence falsely linked the assassins to the town of Lidice, and Lezaky. In retaliation, Heinrich Himmler ordered over 13,000 people arrested. The village of Lidice was razed to the ground and many of its women and children were deported to Nazi concentration camps; further, all male residents over the age of 16 (192 in total) were shot by firing squads. In total, approximately 1,300 people were murdered in retaliation to Heydrich's death.
This stamp was issued on the 28th of May 1943, and stands as one of the more macabre German postal issues of the period.
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