1941 Heydrich Proclamation - Death Sentences

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1941 SS OBERGRUPPENFÜHRER HEYDRICH PUBLIC PROCLAMATION

SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei Reinhard Heydrich

AN ABSOLUTELY AUTHENTIC
BEKANNTMACHUNG
OR PUBLIC PROCLAMATION
OVER THE NAME OF
REINHARD HEYDRICH,
ACTING REICHSPROTECTOR
OF BOHEMIA AND MORAVIA,
SS-OBERGRUPPENFÜHRER AND
GENERAL OF THE POLICE

This is an original 1941 Bekanntmachung or public proclamation printed on orange paper with a large eagle and swastika at the top and a message over the imprimatur of

Der Reichsprotektor in Böhmen und Mähren
Heydrich
SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei

It is dated

Prag 28. September 1941

The 18-1/2 x 24-3/4 inch proclamation is written in German at the left and in Czech at the right, and was printed specifically for the Acting Reichsprotector by Böhmisch-Mährische Verlags- und Druckerei Gesellschaft m.b.H in Prag (Praha, Prague) for posting throughout the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

Publishing this historic Bekanntmachung was Heydrich’s very first act upon his arrival in Prague as the replacement for German career diplomat Konstatin Freiherr von Neurath.

The subject of this Bekanntmachung got the attention of absolutely everyone in the Protektorate. It says:

In compliance with the order of the Reichsprotector of Bohemia and Moravia the following persons have been sentenced to death for high treason: Army General Josef Bily and Division General Hugo Vojta.

In compliance with the order of the Reichsprotector of Bohemia and Moravia the following persons have been sentenced to death for sabotage: Alois Trnecka of Alt-Raussnitz and Rudolf Pospisil of Dirnowitz.

In compliance with the order of the Reichsprotector of Bohemia and Moravia the following persons have been sentenced to death for possession of weapons: Ladislaus Kumzak of Prag and Wenzel Franc of Prag.

The sentences were carried out and each of the guilty persons was shot today.

This original Nazi broadside poster is an enormously significant piece of German, Czech, Nazi, European, Reinhard Heydrich and world history. Almost eight months to the day later, SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei Reinhard Heydrich was assassinated by Czech parachutists dropped into Bohemia by the British SOE, and reprisals like none ever seen before began. The towns of Lidice and Lezaky were removed from the face of the earth, and thousands of Czechs were either shot or sent to Nazi concentration camps.

This Bekanntmachung is remarkably well-preserved and is
**SOLD**.

Other Reinhard Heydrich material offered for sale on this website:

- Genuine oil painting of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich.

- Framed material related to Reinhard Heydrich's life and untimely death.

- Völkischer Beobachter newspaper announcing May 1942 attack on Reinhard Heydrich.

- A stone piece from the church in Prague where Reinhard Heydrich's assassins died.

- Czech commando / British SOE spy material.

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