usmbooks USM Rapid City

REINHARD HEYDRICH ASSASSINATION CZECH NEWSPAPER
SS-Obergruppenführer Heydrich
1942 CZECHOSLOVAKIAN
NEWSPAPER MLADY SVET
REPORTING ON THE
AFTERMATH OF THE
MURDER OF GENERAL
OF POLICE, DEPUTY
REICHSPROTECTOR AND
SS-OBERGRUPPENFÜHRER
REINHARD HEYDRICH
This is an absolutely authentic, original example of the Czechoslovakian newspaper Mlady svet dated Prag (Prague, Praha - the capital of Czechoslovakia) 17 June 1942. The entire front page of the four-page, 11-1/2 x 16-1/2 inch newspaper consists of a black bordered portrait of Nazi Police General, SS-Obergruppenführer and Deputy Reichsprotector of the German Protectorate of Böhmen und Mähren (Bohemia and Moravia) killed on 4 June 1942 in the Prag suburb Kobilisi by assassins sent from Britain.
Reinhard Eugen Tristan Heydrich
Reinhard Eugen Tristan 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.
Heydrich assassination Czech newspaper
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.

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 and Jan Kubis, 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.
Heydrich funeral
This heavily illustrated newspaper is published in the Czech language in Prag to honor the memory of Reinhard Heydrich. It tells the story of his assassination and his funeral at the Reichschancellery in Berlin on 9 June 1942. It is a very, very rare and historic piece of Heydrich and Third Reich ephemera, and for all we know it may be the only example in existence. It is NOT pictured in the Ulric of England books or the dozens of other books that purport to be the final word on the subject of Heydrich and his assassination. This newspaper has been laminated for permanent preservation. Very good condition. Please read our "ephemera" explanation below.
This USM Books web page is Copyright © 2005 by USM, Inc., and the text and images on it are fully protected by international copyright law. It is therefore, illegal for anyone to take any of the material found here and use it for their own purposes without our written permission, irrespective of any excuse they may feel they have for doing so. We will expose and prosecute those guilty of theft of our copyrighted material.
USM, Inc. Post Office Box 2600, Rapid City, SD 57709-2600 USA
EPHEMERA
The word “ephemera” refers to things that are typically expected to have a rather short life - the daily paper, an auction or advertising poster, and even a Christmas card are good examples of ephemera. The newspaper above was printed over 60 years ago during the Third Reich on poor quality paper with a highly acidic wood pulp content. Through exposure to ordinary air, chemicals in the air began the process of destroying it. The yellowing or browning of old paper is a sure sign of that destruction process.

This newspaper has been very carefully dried and then laminated between two thin layers of plastic material that seal out air born contaminants like sulfur that could destroy the paper it is printed on. It can now be handled, examined, displayed, and even copied and it should still last for hundreds of years longer than it would if it was not laminated.