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Czech Republic United Kingdom France: Languages: English Czech: Budget: $9 million [4] Box office: $5.3 million [1] Anthropoid is a 2016 war film directed by Sean ...
The assassination attempt, code-named Operation Anthropoid, was carried out by resistance operatives Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš on 27 May 1942. [2] Heydrich was wounded in the attack [ 3 ] and died of his injuries on 4 June.
Monument at the place of the ambush on Reinhard Heydrich. 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.
Atentát (English title: The Assassination) is a 1964 black-and-white Czechoslovak war film directed by Jiří Sequens.The film depicts events before and after the World War II assassination of top German leader Reinhard Heydrich in Prague (Operation Anthropoid).
Heydrich was mortally wounded in Prague on 27 May 1942 as a result of Operation Anthropoid. He was ambushed by a team of Czech and Slovak soldiers who had been sent by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile to kill him; the team was trained by the British Special Operations Executive. Heydrich died from his injuries on 4 June 1942.
Jan Kubiš was born in 1913 in Dolní Vilémovice, Moravia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Czech Republic).Jan was a Boy Scout. [3] [4]Jan Kubiš, having previously been an active member of Orel, started his military career as a Czechoslovak army conscript on 1 November 1935 by 31st Infantry Regiment "Arco" in Jihlava.
Anthropoid means 'ape/human feature' and may refer to: Simian , monkeys and apes (anthropoids, or suborder Anthropoidea, in earlier classifications) Anthropoid apes , apes that are closely related to humans (e.g., former family Pongidae and sometimes also Hylobatidae and their extinct relatives)
Location of Ležáky in the Czech Republic. Ležáky (Czech pronunciation: [ˈlɛʒaːkɪ], German: Ležak, from 1939: Lezaky), in the Miřetice municipality, was a village in Czechoslovakia. During the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, it was razed by Nazi forces as reprisal for Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich's assassination in late ...