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Czechs search for dead 'heroes' who killed SS chief Heydrich
Topic Started: Aug 2 2016, 09:23 PM (284 Views)
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The assassination of Nazi police chief Reinhard Heydrich by Czechoslovak resistance fighters in 1942 was one of the outstanding feats of daring in World War Two.
A new thriller called Anthropoid premieres in the US on 12 August, dramatising the ambush by British-trained Czechoslovak paratroopers Jozef Gabcik and Jan Kubis in Prague.
Yet even today parts of the story are shrouded in mystery.
SS Obergruppenfuehrer Heydrich, acting Reichsprotektor of occupied Bohemia and Moravia, was a key organiser of the Holocaust.
The Nazi retaliation for his assassination was savage - the Czech villages of Lidice and Lezaky were razed, the inhabitants shot or deported to concentration camps.


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36944090
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Where he was killed....

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Heydrich was ambushed in Prague while travelling in an open-top Mercedes

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This photo shows Gabcik's British Sten gun - abandoned after it jammed


The two guys who pulled it off....


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An RAF plane had dropped Kubis and Gabcik into occupied Czechoslovakia

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Edited by W A Mozart, Aug 2 2016, 09:27 PM.
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BuckFan

Saw the ad on TV for the movie. This made me want to go see it. Thanks for posting
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Aug 3 2016, 02:04 PM
Saw the ad on TV for the movie. This made me want to go see it. Thanks for posting
Yes, I can't wait to see that film either

Below is some World War II footage of the Berghof in Berchtesgaden. I've been there many times, and explored many of the tunnels from the Berghof.

If you go to (3:46) in the footage below you'll see Himmler and Heydrich chatting on the terrace of the Berghof in 1940. Fascinating footage. Himmler and Heydrich, ...and then Hitler later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLaMmEFm7Fo



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