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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. They landed in a gravel pit in a small town called Pardubice, about 60 miles east of Prague. 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.
The item we offer for sale here is a 75 x 110 mm sheet of tan paper to which is attached 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 4 June 1943, the first anniversary of Heydrich's death and it was applied in the town of Pardubice, where the Czech assassins landed in a gravel pit at New Years 1941/42.
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.
an oil painting of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich
NAZI STAMP REINHARD HEYDRICH DEATH MASK
A
REINHARD HEYDRICH
DEATH MASK STAMP
WITH A PARDUBICE
CANCELATION DATED
4 JUNE 1943
DEATH MASK STAMP
WITH A PARDUBICE
CANCELATION DATED
4 JUNE 1943
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