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Aug 11, 2016 · Operation Anthropoid Documentary. 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.
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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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.
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.
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.
Apr 21, 2022 · Operation Anthropoid was the only successful assassination of a Nazi leader during World War II when the Czech resistance killed Reinhard Heydrich in 1942. After everything went wrong, the assassins pulled out their secret weapon: an anti-tank grenade.
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Sep 9, 2016 · In 1942, two men were parachuted into Nazi-occupied Prague charged with a seemingly impossible mission – to assassinate the high-ranking SS officer Reinhard Heydrich.
