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The Operation Anthropoid Memorial (Czech: Památník Operace Anthropoid) is a monument in Libeň, Prague that commemorates Operation Anthropoid, an ambush on senior Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich by Czechoslovakian partisans on 27 May 1942 which resulted in his death one week later.
May 7, 2023 · Another view of the Operation Anthropoid Memorial Prague The site is on a traffic junction in the suburb of Libeň, in the Prague 8 district. It is right across the busy dual carriageway Pražsky okruh from the Bulovka Hospital, where Heydrich was to die of his wounds a week after they were inflicted.
The soldiers of Operation Anthropoid, their helpers and the operation itself were memorialized in the Czech Republic and abroad. The oldest memorial is a plaque on the Cathedral of Saints Cyril and Methodius in Resslova Street, Prague.
May 27, 2022 · The assassination of one of the most senior Nazis, codenamed Operation Anthropoid, is today firmly a part of the Czech national consciousness.
Sep 1, 2017 · It is more than 75 years since 18 June 1942, when seven Czech and Slovak airmen involved in Operation Anthropoid – the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, acting Reich Protector of Bohemia and...
Nov 28, 2023 · The Operation Anthropoid Memorial. The Operation Anthropoid Memorial is in a district of Prague called Liben near the road intersection at Vychovatelna Street. It commemorates the Czechoslovak parachutists who carried out the assassination of the acting Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich on May 27, 1942, under the codename “Operation ...