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My mint and complete Bohemia and Moravia stamps sets:

BH-M Airmail Stamp (22nd April 1939):

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Here is an airmail stamp issued in the very early days of the Bohemia and Moravia protectorate that still has Czechoslovak haler as it's currency. It is a blackish brown violet and depicts a Fokker F.VIIB-3m plane flying over some fields. It is catalogue code Michel DE-BM B1.

BH-M Linden Leaf Definitives (30th August 1939):

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Set of 5 definitives. They are Michel catalogue code DE-BM 20-24.

BH-M 1st Generation Newspaper Stamps (25th August 1939):

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Set of 9 newspaper stamps. They are Michel catalogue code DE-BM 42-50.

BH-M Prague Fair and Exhibition (7th September 1941):

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Set of 4 stamps, they are Michel catalogue code DE-BM 75-78.

BH-M Anniversary of Mozart's Death (26th October 1941):

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Set of 4 stamps, they are Michel catalogue code DE-BM 79-82.

BH-M Red Cross Cares for the Wounded (1st September 1942):

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Featured is a set of 2 semi-postal stamps with Michel catalogue codes of DE-BM 111-112.

BH-M Stamp Day (10th January 1943):

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Here is a single issue with a Michel catalogue code of DE-BM 113.

BH-M Winterhilfswerk Famous Men (29th January 1943):

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Set of 3 with Michel catalogue codes of DE-BM 114-116.

BH-M Newspaper Stamps 2nd Generation (15th February 1943):

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Set of 9 with Michel catalogue codes of DE-BM 117-125.

BH-M Hitler's 54th Birthday at Prague Castle (20th April 1943):

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Set of 2 with Michel catalogue codes of DE-BM 126-127.

BH-M Posthumous Birthday of Wagner (22nd May 1943):

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Set of 3 with Michel catalogue codes of DE-BM 128-130.

BH-M Anniversary of Reinhard Heydrich's Death (28th May 1943):

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Here I have a stamp from the bohemia-moravia protectorate, that being the former regions of Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia. Depicted is the 'Deputy Protector' of the regions protectorate; Reinhard Heydrich, alongside an SS symbol. Heydrich was a notorious Nazi and high ranking member of the SS that is often given the title of 'principal architect of the holocaust'. He was directly responsible for the Einsatzgruppen, a sadistic task force that murdered over 2 million people by mass shooting and gassing, including 1.3 million Jews. Heydrich was thankfully mortally wounded in Prague when a team of Czech and Slovak soldiers threw an anti-tank mine at his car as it stopped, severely injuring and later killing him. The Nazis, in what they thought was an act of retaliation, then razed the villages of Lidice and Lezaky resulting in the mass-murder or exile of almost all of it's civilians. This brutal retaliation was made on the basis of bad intel as the task force was actually sent by the Czechoslovak goverment in-exile with it's members being trained by the British Special Operations Executive.

This example is mint never hinged and has a face value of 60 + 440 Bohemian and Moravian Haler, it is of violet black colour. In the top left corner is of course the name Reinhard Heydrich and below that both the date of his birth and death with this stamp being issued by the Nazis to commemorate and honour the latter. Just over a million of these stamps were printed with only a thousand being issued on special sheets, most of which were handed out on the day of his funeral and are thus exceedingly rare. The singular stamp such as this one is catalog code Michel DE-BM 131.

BH-M German Red Cross Eagle (16th September 1943):

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Single issue with a Michel catalogue code of DE-BM 132.

BH-M 5th Anniversary of the Protectorate (15th March 1944):

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Set of 3 with Michel catalogue codes of DE-BM 133-135.

BH-M 55th Birthday of Adolf Hitler (20th April 1944):

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Set of 2 with Michel catalogue codes of DE-BM 136-137.

BH-M Death Anniversary of Bedřich Smetana (12th May 1944):

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Set of 2 with Michel catalogue codes of DE-BM 138-139.

BH-M St. Veits Cathedral in Prague (21st November 1944):

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Set of 2 with Michel catalogue codes of DE-BM 140-141.

Adolf Hitler High-Value Definitive (1st February 1945):

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The final and singular issue of the Bohemia and Moravia protectorate with a Michel catalogue code of DE-BM 142.