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Two years after Heydrich's death, Operation Foxley, a similar assassination plan, was drawn up against Hitler, but never implemented. Operation Anthropoid was the only successful government-organized assassination of a top-ranking Nazi official.
Mar 18, 2024 · During Operation Anthropoid, Nazi Reinhard Hydrich, who was responsible for the murder of many civilians, was assassinated in Prague in 1942.
Jan 12, 2024 · Aptly known as the “Butcher of Prague,” Heydrich’s iron-fisted rule over the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia had transformed these lands into a cauldron of suffering and despair. But who was this man, and why did his elimination become a moral imperative?
Sep 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.
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Sean Ellis’s Anthropoid is one of the most recent manifestations of this trend. His is the first of two new dramatizations of the assassination of Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich in Prague in 1942. Cédric Jimenez’s rendering of the novel HHhH follows later in the year.
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Anthropoid was the only successful assassination of a senior Nazi leader during World War II. Heydrich was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and an important figure in the rise of Adolf Hitler; as a Nazi potentate, he was given overall charge of the so-called Final Solution (Holocaust) of the Jews in Europe.