Waffen SS Generals cap SS-Oberstgruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich Aged
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Reproduction Waffen Schutzstaffel (Waffen SS), German Generals cap Reinhard Heydrich, made of top quality material and in the same method and materials as in the originals. In medium aged condition, but with damage from the attack by Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabčík who were trained by the Special Operations Executive (SOE).
The insignia is museum quality and both eagle and death heads skull insignia show light wear. It is a size 57 and we recommend this as a display piece and not for wear. Treat it like an original.
The outside has several large ares of staining from the attack on the left hand side and left hand top - the side where he was wounded. It also has fragments of rusting metal on the outer velvet and chinstrap button.
The chinstrap is an original Waffen SS strap and has had a repair to the left hand side.
The leather sweat band is in excellent condition and the celluloid sweat protector has a shows light age colouring. There are light wear stains on the inside with some spots. His name tag is within the sweat protector.
The silver piping is lightly and still bright looking in places. The vulkanfibre peak has age cracks & marks on both sides. There are small amounts of wear and discolouration to the velvet outer headband.
A genuine Heydrich cap in this condition will easily go for tens of thousand's of pounds, which is out of the price range of most average collectors if one ever did come on the market. It is understood that most of Heydrichs uniform is still owned by his family. This one looks the part and is at a snip of a price.
Please Email us if you want a similar one made to your specification! Full worldwide insurance is included within the Postal charges, this protects you the buyer.
Reproduction Waffen Schutzstaffel (Waffen SS), German Generals cap Reinhard Heydrich, made of top quality material and in the same method and materials as in the originals. In medium aged condition, but with damage from the attack by Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabčík who were trained by the Special Operations Executive (SOE).
The insignia is museum quality and both eagle and death heads skull insignia show light wear. It is a size 57 and we recommend this as a display piece and not for wear. Treat it like an original.
The outside has several large ares of staining from the attack on the left hand side and left hand top - the side where he was wounded. It also has fragments of rusting metal on the outer velvet and chinstrap button.
The chinstrap is an original Waffen SS strap and has had a repair to the left hand side.
The leather sweat band is in excellent condition and the celluloid sweat protector has a shows light age colouring. There are light wear stains on the inside with some spots. His name tag is within the sweat protector.
The silver piping is lightly and still bright looking in places. The vulkanfibre peak has age cracks & marks on both sides. There are small amounts of wear and discolouration to the velvet outer headband.
A genuine Heydrich cap in this condition will easily go for tens of thousand's of pounds, which is out of the price range of most average collectors if one ever did come on the market. It is understood that most of Heydrichs uniform is still owned by his family. This one looks the part and is at a snip of a price.
Please Email us if you want a similar one made to your specification! Full worldwide insurance is included within the Postal charges, this protects you the buyer.
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Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich was a high-ranking German Nazi official during World War II, and a main architect of the Holocaust. In London, the Czechoslovak government-in-exile resolved to kill Heydrich.
The junction, in the Prague suburb of Libeň, was chosen for the attack because motorists have to slow for a hairpin bend. As Heydrich's car slowed, Gabčík took aim with a Sten submachine gun, but it jammed and failed to fire. Instead of ordering his driver to speed away, Heydrich called his car to halt and attempted to confront the attackers.
Kubiš then threw a converted anti-tank mine at the rear of the car as it stopped. The explosion wounded both Heydrich and Kubiš. When the smoke cleared, Heydrich emerged from the wreckage with his gun in his hand; he chased Kubiš and tried to return fire. Kubiš jumped on his bicycle and pedaled away.
Heydrich ran after him for half a block but became weak from shock and collapsed. He sent his driver, Klein, to chase Gabčík on foot. In the ensuing firefight, Gabčík shot Klein in the leg and escaped to a local safe house.
Heydrich, still with pistol in hand, gripped his left flank, which was bleeding profusely. A Czech woman went to Heydrich's aid and flagged down a delivery van.
He died on 4 June; an autopsy concluded he died of sepsis.
The junction, in the Prague suburb of Libeň, was chosen for the attack because motorists have to slow for a hairpin bend. As Heydrich's car slowed, Gabčík took aim with a Sten submachine gun, but it jammed and failed to fire. Instead of ordering his driver to speed away, Heydrich called his car to halt and attempted to confront the attackers.
Kubiš then threw a converted anti-tank mine at the rear of the car as it stopped. The explosion wounded both Heydrich and Kubiš. When the smoke cleared, Heydrich emerged from the wreckage with his gun in his hand; he chased Kubiš and tried to return fire. Kubiš jumped on his bicycle and pedaled away.
Heydrich ran after him for half a block but became weak from shock and collapsed. He sent his driver, Klein, to chase Gabčík on foot. In the ensuing firefight, Gabčík shot Klein in the leg and escaped to a local safe house.
Heydrich, still with pistol in hand, gripped his left flank, which was bleeding profusely. A Czech woman went to Heydrich's aid and flagged down a delivery van.
He died on 4 June; an autopsy concluded he died of sepsis.
