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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;De Orc, post: 251829, member: 4408&quot;]In 1939 Germany invaded and occupied Czechoslovakia and the country was divided into two main parts Slovakia which was allied to Germany and Bohemia &amp; Moravia which became a Protectorate of Greater Germany and placed under Reichsprotektor, Freiherr Konstantin von Neurath under his rule things were not as bad as they would become.</p><p>&nbsp; </p><p>The real power &amp; terror though lay with Reinhard Heydrich , the &#039;Butcher of Prauge&#039; (Head of the SD) when he was made&nbsp; Reichsprotektor on&nbsp; 27 September 1941.</p><p>Heydrich was died after a failed assasinated attempt by Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabčík two Czech soldiers parachuted in by the British on May 27, 1942.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reprisals taken for this act still remain today as a poigniant reminder of the brutality of the Nazi Regiem, Under the command of the new Reichsprotektor Colonel General Kurt Daluege, about 13,000 people were arrested, deported, imprisoned or killed. On June 10 all males over the age of 16 in the village of Lidice, 22 km north-west of Prague, and another village, Ležáky, were murdered, the towns were burned and the ruins levelled.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The Czech koruna was replaced by the B&amp;M Koruna in 1940 and issued in the following values as a coins</p><p>10, 20 and 50 haléřů in zinc.&nbsp; This was followed in 1941 by the 1k also in zinc </p><p><br /></p><p>Well I have finaly got my 1st two B&amp;M coins <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>1941 20h</p><p>1942 1k </p><p><br /></p><p>As some of you will know I allready have a number of the banknotes in my collection but on top of that I have nearly all the stamps that were produced under the occupation</p><p><br /></p><p>I am trying to get the Slovakian ones as well[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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