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Originally posted by besslein View Postand now it is in asia chen?
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Chen,
Thank you for sharing this very first type of citation for the Ehrenring!!
A short period after this the Ehrenring was mentioned and treated as an award returned to the SS after death of it´s bearer and not as a present of loyalty anymore.
It was due to the inner development of Himmler´s thoughts and future plans regarding the SS - finally he decided that after death of the bearer all Ehrenringe had to be sent to Wewelsburg castle to be buried there in a special shrine.
Therefore I do not believe that Heydrich´s Ehrenring was melted after his death but - like any other - sent to Wewelsburg castle - especially since the SS created and dedicated a room in the castle as Heydrich´s rememberance room including an example of the bust of Heydrich in bronze created by the artist Franz Rotter in Prag for which the Persönlicher Stab RF-SS paid 1000 RM and which was sent to the castle.
The second commander of Wewelsburg castle , Siegfried Taubert, was a personal friend of Heydrich and a former collegue working for him in the RSHA in Berlin before he was sent to the castle in 1938 for replacing Manfred von Knobelsdorff.
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