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BLOOD ORDER WINNER UNTERSTURMFUHRER VICTKOR STIASTNY WAS ONE OF THE GROUP WHO ASSASSINATED AUSTRIAN CHANCELLOR DOLLFUSS IN 1934, THEN SUBSEQUENTLY WAS THE RIGHT HAND MAN FOR THE NOTORIOUS WAR CRIMINALS – HANS FRANK , RUDOLF PAVEL AND OTTO WACHTER WHO WERE ALL EXECUTED FOR WAR CRIMES IN OCCUPIED POLAND DURING WW2. AMAZINGLY STIASTNY GOT AWAY WITH EVERYTHING AND POST WW2 RETURNED TO HIS PRE WAR LIFE AS A BOOK KEEPER IN VIENNA.

WE ARE PLEASED TO OFFER – DIRECT FROM THE FAMILY THE NUMBERED 1933 PATTERN SS DAGGER OF SS NUMBER 278941 VIKTOR STIASTNY FROM VIENNA WHO JOINED THE NDSAP IN 1932 AND THE SS IN 1934, JUST PRIOR TO THE ASSASSINATION OF CHANCELLOR DOLLFUSS ON 25TH JULY 1934 BY A TROOP OF SS MEN UNDER THE INSTRUCTION OF HITLER. STIASTNY IS DOCUMENTED AS HAVING BEEN PRESENT IN THE BOOK ‘THE ASSASSINATION OF EUROPE’ – ” Another Nazi intruder – Corporal Viktor Stiastny , kneeling a moment beside the bleeding Chancellor , unbuttoned Dollfuss’s jacket , calmly took out its wallet and received it of its cash.”

SOME MEMBERS OF THE ASSISSINATION GANG WERE SUBSEQUENTLY TRIED AND SOME EXECUTED BUT STIASTNY SEEMS TO HAVE GOT AWAY WITH THIS SCOT FREE AND WAS SUBEQUENTLY AWARDED THE BLOOD ORDER FOR HIS EFFORTS ON THE DAY.

GOING FORWARD TO 1939 AND STIASTNY IS PROMOTED TO SS UNTERSTURMFUHRER AND CAN BE SEEN IN SEVERAL PHOTO’S CLEARLY AS A PART OF THE ‘FRANK , WACHTER & PAVEL ‘SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAM’ . WHAT HE DID FROM 1940 THROUGH TO 1945 IS A MYSTERY AND HIS CIA INVESTIGATION FILE LISTS HIM AS A Hitler Youth LEADER !

HOWEVER THERE IS A COPY DOCUMENT DATED 30/4/45 WHERE HE EMERGES NEAR TRIESTE IN ITALY WITH NO UNIFORM OR PAPERS CLAIMING HE WAS HELD BY PARTIZANS ! THERE IS CLEARLY A LOT MORE TO BE UNCOVERED ON THIS SS OFFICER WHO SEEMS TO HAVE SPENT MOST OF HIS CAREER UNDER THE RADAR!

THE DAGGER ITELF IS IN GOOD CONDITION AND IS CLEARLY NUMBERED TO STIASTNY’S SS NUMBER TO THE CROSS GUARD. THERE IS MUCH CROSS GRAINING REMAINING AND NO DENTS TO THE SCABBARD.

INCLUDED ARE COPIES OF THE PAPERWORK STILL HELD BY THE STIASTNY FAMILY INCLUDING HIS WEHRPASS , SEVERAL PHOTOGRAPHS AND THE 1945 LOST CLOTHING / PAPERWORK DOCUMENT. HIS CIA FILE IS AVAILABLE ON THE WEB , BUT A PRINTOUT OF IT IS ALSO INCLUDED.

NUMBERED SS DAGGERS WITH PROVENANCE ARE RARE BUT EXCEPTIONALLY RARE WHEN TO A SS OFFICER WITH A GOOD HISTORY.