armyofczechoslovakrepublic:Year 1942, Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia78th Anniversary of Operation
armyofczechoslovakrepublic:Year 1942, Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia78th Anniversary of Operation AnthropoidOn 27th May 1942 These soldiers made assasination of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich. SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich was called on new post to Paris, but his car was stopped by Josef Gapčík and Jan Kubiš, these paratroopers started attack on Reinhard Heydrich’s car. That was main attack with sub-machinegun Sten Mk II. (Josef Gabčík) and anti-tank grenade (Jan Kubiš) in reserve. Main attack with Sten wasnt succesful beacouse Sten jammed so Jan Kubiš threw a anti-tank grenade on car. Then they escaped.Later SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich died in hospital. Operation was at last succesful. Then paratroopers were hiding in Church of Cyril and Methodius in Prague. But there were founed by SS troops beacouse two of the members told nazis where they are… but after terrible torture by Gestapo. SS-Troops surrounded church and started attack on these 7 paratroopers hiding in church. Some of these were fighting with SS troops and some of them were hiding in cellar. Paratroopers were ressisting nazis for 8 hours, even the Nazis were superior. Paratroopers were trapped in cellar, under fire from MG 34 and Firefighters on order of SS officers were trying to drown paratroopers up with water from fire hoses. That day died one of the heroes of world war 2. They killed one of biggest criminals of world war 2 SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich “Prague Butcher”. We recall these heroes who fought against the Nazis and prevented further murders by order of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich. They fought for the freedom of the Czech-Slovak nation and prove to the world that Czech-Slovaks are not a figure of the Nazi regime and to save the lifes of innocent.Names of heroes: Josef Gabčík, Jan Kubiš, Josef Valčík, Lt. Adolf Opálka, Jan Hrubý, Jaroslav Švarc, Josef BublíkHonor and glory to the fallen(Good film about this operation is: film Anthropoid - (2016) -- source link