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HEYDRICH NAZI POSTAGE STAMP |
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AN ENVELOPE WITH A
REINHARD HEYDRICH DEATH MASK STAMP MAILED IN PRAGUE, THE CITY OF HIS DEATH |
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| Czech commandos, Josef Gabcik and Jan Kubis, were trained as spies and assassins by the British Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.) in England and parachuted into Czechoslovakia late in 1941. On 27 May 1942 they tossed a large grenade against the side of SS-3, the open Mercedes-Benz automobile in which Deputy Reichsprotector of Bohemia and Moravia and General of Police Reinhard Heydrich was being driven to his office in downtown Praha (Prague, Prag) , inflicting wounds on the SS-Obergruppenführer that took his life in the early morning hours of 4 June 1942. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| On 28 May 1943, the first anniversary of the attack on Heydrich's life, a commemorative postage stamp (Sonderbriefmarke) was issued featuring his death mask and SS runes.
The item we offer for sale here is an empty envelope measuring 4-3/8 x 6-1/4 inches. The envelope contains a canceled Reinhard Heydrich Sonderbriefmarke with the words DEUTSCHES REICH, BÖHMEN UND MÄHREN (Bohemia and Moravia), SS (runes), REINHARD HEYDRICH and the date of his birth, 7 March 1904 , and death, 4 June 1942. The cancelation date is 17 June 1943. |
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