Operation Anthropoid and the Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich (Volume 5, Episode 5) Part One

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In 1942, the Czech government in exile decided to parachute two commandos into the former Czechoslovakia to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, considered the most brutal and sinister Nazi in Occupied Europe. Code named Operation Anthropoid, this suicide mission remains one of the most heroic and remarkable stories of World War II. Nazi lore has it that Heinrich Himmler, appointed in 1929 as the head of the newly formed SS, was intent on developing a unit consigned … Continue reading Operation Anthropoid and the Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich (Volume 5, Episode 5) Part One →

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