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Aug 11, 2016 · Operation Anthropoid Documentary & Reinhard Heydrich Videos. Watch a short documentary detailing the day of the assassination, then view a Reinhard Heydrich biography that features home movie footage of the high-ranking Nazi official with his wife and children.
Sep 6, 2021 · September 6, 2021. Undercover agents dropped by parachute into occupied central Europe. The daylight assassination of one of the most-important Nazi leaders. Brutal reprisals and the largest manhunt in the Second World War. A betrayal leading to a final desperate shoot-out in a church.
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The assassination attempt, code-named Operation Anthropoid, was carried out by resistance operatives Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš on 27 May 1942. [2] Heydrich was wounded in the attack [3] and died of his injuries on 4 June. [2]
Aug 11, 2016 · This documentary recreates the efforts of Jan Kubiš, Josef Gabčík, and other members of the Czechoslovakian army-in-exile as they orchestrated and carried out the assassination of Holocaust architect Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazis' third in command.
Mar 18, 2024 · The adults were executed, the children killed or resettled with German families, and the village torn down. Reinhard Heydrich, the brutal Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, was given a lavish Nazi state funeral in June 1942. In this photo, Adolf Hitler extends a Nazi salute.
Apr 21, 2022 · In October 1941, František Moravec, the exiled head of Czech intelligence, went to British Special Operations Executive, Winston Churchill’s famous “Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare,” to propose an assassination. They agreed, and the project was given the codename Operation Anthropoid.
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Jan 12, 2024 · Operation Anthropoid was set into motion on May 27, 1942, in the heart of Nazi-occupied Prague. Gabčík and Kubiš parachuted into Czechoslovakia and meticulously planned the attack. On a fateful morning, as Heydrich’s car slowed around a sharp turn, Gabčík stepped forward to carry out the assassination.
