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Operace Anthropoid byl krycí název pro parašutistický výsadek vyslaný během druhé světové války z Velké Británie na území Protektorátu Čechy a Morava. Tvořili ho vojáci československé exilové armády Jozef Gabčík a Jan Kubiš.
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.
Aug 11, 2016 · Starring Cillian Murphy, Jamie Dornan, Charlotte Le Bon | based on Operation Anthropoid, a mission carried out by Czechoslovak soldiers-in-exile to assassinate SS officer Reinhard Heydrich, a main architect of the Final Solution
Sep 6, 2021 · September 6, 2021. Undercover agents dropped by parachute into occupied central Europe. The daylight assassination of one of the most-important Nazi leaders. Brutal reprisals and the largest manhunt in the Second World War. A betrayal leading to a final desperate shoot-out in a church.
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May 27, 2022 · The assassination of one of the most senior Nazis, codenamed Operation Anthropoid, is today firmly a part of the Czech national consciousness. “It is perceived as a heroic act and, together...
Jan 12, 2024 · Operation Anthropoid was set into motion on May 27, 1942, in the heart of Nazi-occupied Prague. Gabčík and Kubiš parachuted into Czechoslovakia and meticulously planned the attack. On a fateful morning, as Heydrich’s car slowed around a sharp turn, Gabčík stepped forward to carry out the assassination.
Operation Anthropoid was the code name for the assassination 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 .
