Operation Anthropoid

Operation Anthropoid was about killing Reinhard Heydrich, a leading Nazi, the Deputy Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. The attack, on 27 May 1942 succeeded. Heydrich died slowly and painfully on 4 June 1942.

The ambush was set up by a team of Czech and Slovak agents who had been sent by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile. Naughty little Adolf was annoyed so there were reprisals. The villages of Lidice and Ležáky were razed; all men and boys over the age of 16 were shot, and all but a handful of the women and children were deported and killed in Nazi concentration camps.

Heydrich was in the Kriegsmarine, the German navy but dismissed for conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman. Getting engaged then marrying someone else went down badly. His future looked fraught but his wife was an ardent Nazi; she pushed him on.

After the Nazis took over the German speaking Sudetenland, part of  Czechoslovakia they followed on by annexing Bohemia & Moravia. The country was useful because it was good at engineering & war production. They designed what became the Bren Gun at Brno. The other main thrust of Public Policy was Ethnic Cleansing, expelling or killing  Jews. Current Propaganda operations emphasize the deaths and ignore the Jews sent to Palestine in collusion with Zionists.

YouTube brings a series of videos on the subject beginning with:-  
Operation Anthropoid Part 1 - YouTube     
Operation Anthropoid Part 2 - YouTube
    

Killing Heydrich Part 1            
Killing Heydrich Part 3
      

1 5 Master of Life and Death Heydrich - YouTube

2 5 Master of Life and Death Heydrich Pt 2 - YouTube

3 5 Master of Life and Death Heydrich

4 5 Master of Life and Death Heydrich - YouTube

The Czechs are rather proud of standing up to the Germans. After that there were the Russians of the USSR. Now they are being infiltrated by China, just like us.

To know more watch Anthropoid (2016) - IMDb. It was filmed on location in Prague and largely true.

 

Operation Anthropoid ex Wiki
Operation Anthropoid
was the code name for the assassination during World War II of Schutzstaffel (SS)-Obergruppenführer and General der Polizei Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Main Security Office, RSHA), the combined security services of Nazi Germany, and acting Reichsprotektor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.[1]

Heydrich was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and an important figure in the rise of Adolf Hitler; he was given overall charge of the "Final Solution (Holocaust) to the Jewish question" in Europe[2]. The Czechoslovaks undertook the operation to help confer legitimacy on Edvard Beneš's government-in-exile in London, as well as for retribution for Heydrich's brutally efficient rule.[3]

The operation was carried out by Czechoslovak army-in-exile soldiers in Prague, on 27 May 1942, after preparation by the British Special Operations Executive with the approval of the Czechoslovak government-in-exile. Wounded in the attack, Heydrich died of his injuries on 4 June 1942. This was the only government-sponsored targeted assassination of a senior Nazi leader during the Second World War. His death led to a wave of reprisals by SS troops, including the destruction of villages and the mass killing of civilians.

 

Reinhard Heydrich ex Wiki     
Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich
(/ˈhdrɪk/; German: [ˈʁaɪnhaʁt ˈtʁɪstan ˈɔʏɡn̩ ˈhaɪdʁɪç] (listen); 7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was a high-ranking German Nazi official during World War II, and a main architect of the Holocaust. He was an SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei (Senior Group Leader and General of Police) as well as chief of the Reich Main Security Office (including the Gestapo, Kripo, and SD). He was also Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor (Deputy/Acting Reich-Protector) of Bohemia and Moravia. Heydrich served as president of the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC; later known as Interpol) and chaired the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, which formalised plans for the Final Solution to the Jewish Question—the deportation and genocide of all Jews in German-occupied Europe.

Many historians regard him as the darkest figure within the Nazi elite;[5][6][7] Adolf Hitler described him as "the man with the iron heart".[4] He was the founding head of the Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service; SD), an intelligence organisation charged with seeking out and neutralising resistance to the Nazi Party via arrests, deportations, and murders. He helped organise Kristallnacht, a series of co-ordinated attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria on 9–10 November 1938. The attacks, carried out by SA stormtroopers and civilians, presaged the Holocaust. Upon his arrival in Prague, Heydrich sought to eliminate opposition to the Nazi occupation by suppressing Czech culture and deporting and executing members of the Czech resistance. He was directly responsible for the Einsatzgruppen, the special task forces which travelled in the wake of the German armies and murdered over two million people, including 1.3 million Jews, by mass shooting and gassing.

Heydrich was critically wounded in Prague on 27 May 1942 as a result of Operation Anthropoid. He was ambushed by a team of Czech and Slovak agents who had been sent by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile to kill the Reich-Protector; the team was trained by the British Special Operations Executive. Heydrich died from his injuries a week later. Nazi intelligence falsely linked the assassins to the villages of Lidice and Ležáky. Both villages were razed; all men and boys over the age of 16 were shot, and all but a handful of the women and children were deported and killed in Nazi concentration camps.

 

Sudetenland ex Wiki        
The Sudetenland (/sˈdtənlænd/ (listen); German: [zuˈdeːtn̩ˌlant]; Czech and Slovak: Sudety; Polish: Kraj Sudecki) is the historical German name for the northern, southern, and western areas of former Czechoslovakia which were inhabited primarily by Sudeten Germans. These German speakers had predominated in the border districts of Bohemia, Moravia, and Czech Silesia from the time of the Austrian Empire.

The word "Sudetenland" did not come into being until the early part of the 20th century and did not come to prominence until over a decade into the century, after the First World War, when the German-dominated Austria-Hungary was dismembered and the Sudeten Germans found themselves living in the new country of Czechoslovakia. The Sudeten crisis of 1938 was provoked by the Pan-Germanist demands of Germany that the Sudetenland be annexed to Germany, which happened after the later Munich Agreement. Part of the borderland was invaded and annexed by Poland. When Czechoslovakia was reconstituted after the Second World War, the Sudeten Germans were expelled and the region today is inhabited almost exclusively by Czech speakers.

The word Sudetenland is a German compound of Land, meaning "country", and Sudeten, the name of the Sudeten Mountains, which run along the northern Czech border and Lower Silesia (now in Poland). The Sudetenland encompassed areas well beyond those mountains, however.

Parts of the now Czech regions of Karlovy Vary, Liberec, Olomouc, Moravia-Silesia, and Ústí nad Labem are within the area called Sudetenland.

 

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Updated  on Saturday, 13 April 2019 21:02:05