Experience the assassination that feels like an action film.
With the fall of the Czechoslovakia to Germany in 1939, several Czech soldiers lived in exile in Britain. Two of the men, cousins Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš, were chosen to carry out Operation Anthropoid: the assassination of acting governor of Prague, Reinhard Heydrich.
The cousins trained in England, were dropped behind enemy lines, and prepared with the underground Czech resistance. They mapped the governors daily commute on bicycles, and then on May 27th, 1942, made the fateful move on Heydrich. Gabčík fired his Sten submachine gun, which jammed. Kubiš then threw a grenade, which eventually killed both Heydrich and his driver.
The success of the operation shocked the German command and was a major victory for the Allies, Czechs living under oppression, and cousins everywhere.
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Germany's march into Prague
1939
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Children in occupied Prague
1941
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Heydrich Reinhard with Heinrich Himmler, a leading member of the Germancommand
1940
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Jozef Gabčík
One of the assassins
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Jan Kubiš
The other assassin, who successfully killed Reinhard Heydrich
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Assassin Josef Gabcik is inspected by Prime Minister Winston Churchill at Cholmondley Park in England.
He stands next to fellow agent Jan Kubis.
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A British Handley-Page Halifax
The plane that dropped the assassins into Prague
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Czech Underground Resistance
Who assisted the assassins.
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Commute of Reinhard Heydrich
Suburbs of Prague, 1941
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A Sten submachine gun
Gabčík's gun suffered from failure to feed.
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Assasination of Reinhard Heydrich
As portrayed in the 1964 film “Atentát”
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The Mercedes-Benz 320 Convertible B
Heydrich was mortally wounded in this car
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Another angle of the Mercedes-Benz 320 Convertible B
After assassination
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The explosion cause totaled the car, and killed both Heydrich and his driver
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The grenade used to kill Heydrich
In the Museum National Memorial to the Heroes of the Heydrich Terror
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German soldiers surround the Church of St. Cyril and St. Methodus in Prague.
they have cornered eight Czech parachutists linked to the assassination of Heydrich. 1942
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Liberation of Prague
1945
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President of Czechoslovakia Edvard Beneš
Returning to Prague from exile.
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Memorial busts of assassins Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš
In the Museum National Memorial to the Heroes of the Heydrich Terror
