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Original Items: Only One Available. This is an exceptional unissued BeVo style machine woven example of an SS-Gebirgsjäger Regt. 11 "Reinhard Heydrich" cuff title. It does not show any signs of ever being attached to a uniform. It is charcoal gray cotton construction with machine embroidered gray Reinhard Heydrich in the center, with gray embroidered borders at the top and bottom. The cuff measures approximately 1 3/16" x 18", with no missing areas, and just a bit of age toning.
Heydrich was an important figure in the NSDAP leadership, especially within the SS regarding the "Final Solution". His car was bombed in Prague, leading to his death, and the SS-Gebirgsjäger Regt. 11 of the 6th SS Mountain Division Nord was given the special title "Reinhard Heydrich" in his memory.
More on Reinhard Heydrich:
Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was a high-ranking German SS and police official during the NSDAP era and a principal architect of the war crimes. He was chief of the Reich Security Main Office (including the Gestapo, Kripo, and SD). He was also Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor (Deputy/Acting Reich-Protector) of Bohemia and Moravia. He served as president of the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC, later known as Interpol) and chaired the January 1942 Wannsee Conference which formalized plans for the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question"—the deportation and genocide of all Jews in German-occupied Europe.
Many historians regard Heydrich as the darkest figure within the NSDAP regime; A H described him as "the man with the iron heart". He was the founding head of the Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service, SD), an intelligence organization charged with seeking out and neutralizing resistance to the NSDAP Party via arrests, deportations, and murders. He helped organize Kristallnacht, a series of coordinated attacks against Jews throughout NSDAP Germany and parts of Austria on 9–10 November 1938. The attacks were carried out by SA stormtroopers and civilians and presaged the extermination. Upon his arrival in Prague, Heydrich sought to eliminate opposition to the German occupation by suppressing Czech culture and deporting and executing members of the Czech resistance. He was directly responsible for the Einsatzgruppen, the special task forces that travelled in the wake of the German armies and murdered more than two million people by mass shooting and gassing, including 1.3 million Jews.
Heydrich was critically wounded in Prague on 27 May 1942 as a result of Operation Anthropoid. He was ambushed by a team of Czech and Slovak soldiers who had been sent by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile to kill the Reich-Protector; the team was trained by the British Special Operations Executive. Heydrich died from his injuries a week later. German intelligence falsely linked the Czech and Slovak soldiers and resistance partisans to the villages of Lidice and Ležáky. Both villages were razed; the men and boys age 14 and above were shot, and all but a handful of the women and children were deported and killed in NSDAP concentration camps.
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