The skull ring was made of not very precious silver, but it was very meaningful to the German SS, and the symbolism was not simply loyalty. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Similarly, in today's military collection in the Western world, an original and genuine "Himmler ring" is a coveted collection for many people, and the small number of surviving is also a very large reason.

The first skull rings were given by Himmler to senior SS cadres as Christmas presents on Christmas Day 1933.

A few years later, it became a reward system, given as a personal gift from Himmler, and the rings were all made exclusively by the Munich company Ottogar and finished entirely by hand.

The ring was returned to the SS Personnel Office by the family of the deceased, and then returned to the castle in Viwells to commemorate the deceased, and the family members could not inherit the ring.

If the bearer dies in battle, the ring is given to the unit commander who was still alive and returned to the castle directly by the SS Personnel Office, and all the rings returned by the deceased form the SS Skull Ring Recipients' Chapel.

As the Third Reich declined at the end of World War II, Himmler ordered the cessation of the production and granting of skull rings in 1944, and by New Year's Day 1945, about 65% of the rings had been returned to the church of the recipients of the skull rings, 26% were still worn by their recipients, and less than 10% were lost to their owners on the battlefield.

“…… Counting the prisoners on the Eastern Front and those who were still alive at the end of the war, the SS battle loss rate was very high, just look at the number of rings recovered. ”

Zhang Nan is not talking nonsense, World War II, especially the Eastern Front battlefield, was beyond imagination.

In the bomb shelter, there were not only thousands of "naked rings" stuffed in a small box, but after priing open a few boxes, many rings in small round wooden boxes were found.

Zhang Nan held one in his hand and said: "... The total number of such original Himmler rings is estimated to be 20,000 at most, and there are very few on the market, and even fewer come with a box..."

The wooden boxes were neatly placed in the boxes, apparently possibly having been once owned by a high level of status, or had contributed greatly to the SS.

There were even a few boxes that still had the certificate of conferment and were stored together in larger square wooden boxes, which were not discarded even during the final retreat.

Kwan Xingquan and Paul knew German, so they opened a few copies and looked at them: some seemed familiar, but some had never heard of them at all - it was not surprising that you were not experts in the history of the German SS in World War II.

But there are exceptions.

Paul handed Zhang Nan a certificate and the ring box that was stored together, "Boss, Reinhard Heydrich's." ”

Open the small box, the ring inside is a little worn, the number inside the ring is "25.12.33", and the certificate was issued in 38 years, which should be reissued.

Zhang Nan looked at the ring of this high-ranking Nazi official with terrifying titles such as "The Blonde Beast", "Nazi Beheader", "Black Prince of the Third Reich", and a big tall image jumped out of his mind: This guy's status in the SS of the Third Reich was second only to Himmler!

This name is familiar to everyone here, and everyone is not a mallet in the past two years, even if they didn't care about the Third Reich before, they will know it after reading more books.

Suddenly, Zhang Nan asked: "A few days ago was Children's Day, do you know how to come?"

Only Jin Wenbo seemed to have heard of it, and said, "It seems to be because of a massacre." ”

Zhang Nan nodded, "Children's Day was established to commemorate the Lidice massacre that occurred on June 10, 1942 and all the children who died in the war around the world.

At the end of May '42, this Heydrich was the SS boss in the then German-occupied Czech Republic, and I forget whether it was annexed or a Bohemian protectorate, anyway, this guy was assassinated by British agents and local partisans, and was seriously wounded on June 4.

By 10 June, Hitler ordered the shooting of all male citizens over the age of 15 and all babies in the village of Lidice, who had helped the assassins, and the women and 90 children to the concentration camps.

In the end, it seems that only a dozen people survived, and the others were basically sent to the gas chambers. ”

At this point, Zhang Nan said in a somewhat mocking tone: "The British want to assassinate this Heydrich, not because of the cruelty of his rule, but because he is about to integrate the Czechs into the Germanic people." ”

At this time, Paul said: "It seems that his management has made the Czech military industry very efficient." ”

Zhang Nan nodded with a smile and said: "After Germany annexed Austria, Hitler's treatment of the Austrians should be the same as that of Germany before the annexation, while the treatment of the Czechs was much worse."

After Heydrich arrived in the Czech Republic, he greatly improved the treatment of Czechs, especially workers, and even the pension benefits that only a very small number of government officials could enjoy in the Czech Republic before it was annexed by Germany, Heydrich promoted it throughout the Czech Republic.

If the British had not carried out the assassinations, the Czech Republic would probably have been the second Austria! Because it is ironic that Czech workers under Nazi rule were treated much better during Heydrich's administration than they were before the German occupation......

Heydrich died, the Czechs were slaughtered quite a bit, the successors lowered the standard of treatment of the Czechs, the factory capacity decreased, and the allies benefited......

Strategically, it was a perfect assassination!"

The guys have gained knowledge, Zhang Nan knows these clearly, that is because he participated in his daughter's June 1st garden party in his previous life, and there is an introduction to the origin of Children's Day in the kindergarten, so he took a closer look.

As for the treatment of Czech workers, I read idle books in my last life.

……

The outermost chests are full of rings, and a rough estimate of the 11,500 or so skull rings should be here.

"These can't be brought back to Long Island, the murderous aura is too heavy, and they can be temporarily put in the training base in Montana. ”

After Zhang Nan finished speaking, he put Heydrich's things into the outer pocket of his wide trousers, and Jin Wenbo began to seal the box.

The murderous spirit is too heavy, more than 10,000 Nazi SS dead ghosts, Zhang Nan thinks he can't afford to provoke.

Because there are basically "naked rings" here, there are not a few boxes, and there are more than 30 boxes with a much larger volume behind them.

Pry a few open, and it will dazzle people's eyes: jewelry, almost all of them are jewelry!

Not "one box and one crown" jewelry, but a whole box of gems, gold coins, necklaces......

The value is difficult to estimate, and here a few small boxes of German gold coins are the least valuable, and Zhang Nan's favorite large wooden box contains 12 SS honorary swords all made of Damascus steel.