Heydrich was critically wounded in Prague on 27 May 1942 when he was ambushed by a team of Czech and Slovak agents who had been sent by the Czechoslovak government in excile to kill the Reich-Protector.
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Block of 4 Reinhard Heydrich Death Mask Stamps – mounted
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Unused block of Reinhard Heydrich Nazi Death Mask Stamps. Issued in 1943 to commemorate his assassination in 1942.
Heydrich was a member of the SS in Germany from 1931 to 1942. He became an SS-Obergruppenfuhrer and the Senior Group Leader and General of the Nazi Police Force, which included the Gestapo, Kripo and SD. Later he became the Deputy/Acting Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia.
He chaired the January 1942 Wannsee Conference which formalised the “Final Solution” which led to the deportation and murdering of Jews in German occupied Europe.
