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REINHARD HEYDRICH

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REINHARD HEYDRICH

<b>260. REINHARD HEYDRICH</b>
<hr align=left size=5 width=33% color=#778899>(1904-1942). German Nazi leader and Himmler’s chief lieutenant. He ran the espionage and surveillance arm of the SS and helped organize the Holocaust. After being named acting governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Heydrich was assassinated by the Czech resistance. TLS “<i>Heydrich</i>” in German, 1p, large 4to, Berlin, May 14, 1942. Untranslated. On “Chef der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD” letterhead to <b><font size=-1>Heinrich Himmler</font></b>, who writes his initials “<i>H H</i>” in green pencil at right margin above text. Heydrich transmits copies of two letters [not present] that had been submitted to him by SS Brigade Chief Dr. Best requesting information. He had spoken to Dr. Best in Paris providing only official and essential information, and put off to another time a discussion that had touched on Himmler’s pending decision. Boldly signed. File holes and staple stain at left edge; scattered marginal stains away from signature; light wear; else good/very good condition. Signed a mere two weeks before Heydrich was mortally wounded by Czech partisans and four months after the infamous Wannsee Conference chaired by Heydrich in which Nazi officials discussed the “final solution” to the “Jewish question.” <b>Werner Best</b> was a trusted deputy to Himmler and Heydrich and in May of 1942 was in Paris supervising the suppression of the French Resistance and the deportation of French Jews. Ex Institute of Documentation, Israel.

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