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Reinhard Heydrich, the commander of the German Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), the acting governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and a principal architect of the Holocaust, [1] was assassinated during the Second World War in a coordinated operation by the Czechoslovak resistance.
Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (/ ˈ h aɪ d r ɪ k / HY-drik, German: [ˈʁaɪnhaʁt ˈtʁɪstan ˈʔɔʏɡ(ɘ)n̩ ˈhaɪdʁɪç] ⓘ; 7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was a high-ranking German SS and police official during the Nazi era and a principal architect of the Holocaust.
Jozef Gabčík (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈjɔzev ˈɡaptʂiːk]; 8 April 1912 – 18 June 1942) was a Slovak soldier in the Czechoslovak Army involved in the Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of acting Reichsprotektor (Realm-Protector) of Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich.
It depicts Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by exiled Czechoslovak soldiers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš in World War II. [5] [6] It was released on 12 August 2016 in the United States and 9 September 2016 in the United Kingdom.
The most well-known act of resistance was the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. Resistance culminated in the so-called Prague uprising of May 1945; with Allied armies approaching, about 30,000 [1] Czechs seized weapons. Four days of bloody street fighting ensued before the Soviet Red Army entered the nearly liberated city.
Reinhard Heydrich (7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was a high-ranking German Nazi official during World War II and a major perpetrator of the Holocaust. The main article for this category is Reinhard Heydrich .
Operation Daybreak (also known as The Price of Freedom in the U.S. [1] and Seven Men at Daybreak during production) is a 1975 war film based on the true story of Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of SS general Reinhard Heydrich in Prague.
Later that year, he betrayed the Czechoslovak army agents responsible for the assassination of top Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich in Prague. [1] His reward was 10,000,000 Kronen or 1 million Reichsmarks [2] [3] and a new identity, "Karl Jerhot". He married a German woman and spent the rest of the war as a Gestapo collaborator. [citation needed]