Love how absolutely livid Heydrich looks during the assassination. He looks *pissed* that someone would even _dare_ to point a gun at him. Great work by the Actor.
Heydrich was very arrogant, but his wife those was a power hungry whore, she was the one who got him into the political party, she was the one who pushed him into doing more (committing war crimes so that he could get a higher rank) his wife deserved assassination, him to but his wife definitely played a big part into what he did,
He was one tough mofo and famously commanded fear and respect. It is said the likes of Himmler had great inferiority complex comparing themselves to Heydrich, formally his subordinate.
@Bartolomew More than 1300, about 5000 peple were executed as revenge, not only Lidice and Ležáky, but I think they had to do it even for that price, he invented holocaust with Himmler and gas chambers, he had to die for any price. Also assasination of Heydrich very helped us in world, we were seen as occupied nation after that, not like nazi allies.
@@Pidalin They did same in Serbia, our soldiers killed 12 Nazis and left their bodies, then they ordered killing of 2800 people, innocent civilians from city of Kragujevac.
Ah the much lauded good old sten gun. My Father while serving in the Welsh Regiment in the Ardennes in 1945 was shot in the leg by his own corporal who dropped his sten gun (and it fired ) while marching behind my Father. Whilst in the field hospital the surgeon asked my Father how he was shot and after being told, the surgeon said 'those bloody sten guns are killing more of our troops than than Germans'.
I read of one being dropped on the ground while the bolt was in the "safety" slot and it fired off a complete magazine, fortunately without hitting anyone.
this scene was so accurate... they werent nervous because of their plan they knew what they went to but Heydrich was never late he was precise as hell. That day he had 5 minute delay and one of the assassins didnt show up wich could only mean that he snitched them or that he ran away. The malfulction of the gun was also right because thats what happened to the shooter and how the shrapnel killed Heydrich from the back was also true according to his autopsy. Also the tram that was next to Heydrichs car was there. That said... this was spot on
Well in reality no bystanders were hit by bullets, but the tram did get hit with shrapnel from the bomb. Heydrich was later evacuated by Czech citizens in the back of a coal lorry to the nearest hospital, he was completely covered in black soot when he arrived. The book HHHH by Laurent Binet is a must-read, it covers it all
@@s.t.lacroix372 oh then our history teacher maybe colored things a little so it would sound better :D he was very smart and i always wanted to spread the information that he told us beacuse it was entertaining :D thank you for correction btw.
The consequences were horrible, represions, hunt for operators GESTAPO were more brutal, than ever been in wholle existence of The Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia. The final epic fight in the church in Resslova street is widely known. I am great patriot with high sense for responsibility to my family, loved ones, friends, loved motherland and The Mankind, so I deeply bow down infront our national heroes.
In reality, Heydrich's overconfidence and stupidity ended up being what cost him his life. During the real assassination attempt, Jozef didn't actually stand in the road, rather he stood on the edge of the pavement to take the shot as the car slowed down, but his gun jammed. Heydrich saw this and, ever the smug and overconfident asshole he was, ordered his driver to stop instead of accelerate out of there so he could shoot the man who had just tried to kill him. This of course proved to be a fatal mistake on Heydrich's part as it gave Jan an opening to throw a bomb under the car, with shrapnel going into his body and horse hair from the car seat becoming lodged in the wounds. He died in hospital of sepsis several days later.
@@Nounismisation The actor with the jammed machine gun (Cillian Murphy) is one of the main characters in the series Peaky Blinders. In that show a lot of gangster stuff goes down followed by the catchphrase "By order of the Peaky Blinders!".
Clinical viewpoint of Heydrich's death: Hospitalised at Bulovka Hospital, there was a deep wound of about ten centimetres in the left paravertebral region. The X-ray shows a left pneumothorax, fracture of the 11th rib and metal in the spleen. In the following operation, the spleen was removed, the pancreas was sutured and a peritoneal drain was placed. The patient’s condition improves rapidly, but on June 2, the patient’s temperature rises and the drainage fluid becomes more important. On 3 June, everything seems to be back in order when, in the night, he falls into a coma and dies at 4:30 in the morning. Unfortunately, autopsy was only partially performed as neither the brain nor the cervical region were analyzed and no toxicological analysis was performed. Analysis of this report could lead to the hypothesis of pulmonary embolism with heart failure in a condition aggravated by infection: non-hemolytic streptococci, Staphylococcus and Proteus were identified in the drainage fluid.
We will never know what exactly happened. Himmler's personal doctor was sent to look after Heydrich. Himmler was the 2nd man in Reich and was incredibly afraid of Heydrich. They were enemies. Hence I think it is also possible that Himmler's doctor could have helped him to the other side somehow. Heydrich's health was improving but then all of a sudden his temperature rised and he died within hours. P.S. Name of the hospital was Bulovka - not Bulkova.
People in Prague were known to collect bags of grass for their rabbits which were kept as food. That’s why he hid the Sten in a bag of grass, to fool a cursory search. It is possible, and shown in the scene when he fits the magazine, that grass got stuck in the weapon as it was being assembled. The Sten wasn’t that bad, as seen in the church battle near the end of the film.
@@Rick-ve5lx yep. First I dont know about Prague prople having rabbits specially in the war when it was all confiscated. In particular bag was no grass and no grass was mentioned in german report in which they concluded why the gun didnt fire. Which I read. Reason was jammed round. Considering stenguns used to jam almost always anyone tried use the gun holding the gun by the magazine, the british doctrine forbid soldiers to grab it by mag. At the time of assasination the gun was new and these things were not known. Considering the stengun had removed stock and therefore had no handle and shooter probably held it by the magazine while chambering the round it probably didnt feed corectly andntried to shoot the gun by pulling the trigger without support. There are already two factores playing against chambering the round. To top it off the heydrichs driver that followed gabcik accidently dropped magazine from his pistol so it was a double cluster fuck.
Jiří Dušek I’ve just finished reading a book called “The assassination of Reinhard Heydrich” by CA MacDonald in which he writes about the grass in the bag (which is presumably correctly shown in the Anthropoid movie). My previous points were from this book. You’re right about the magazine being the weak point of this weapon. However the assassin was trained by the British in it’s use before parachuting to Czechoslovakia so presumably he used it correctly, or at least knew how to do so. I still think it failed to fire due to grass inside it because he assembled it by feel while it was in a bag of grass! In any case the mission was successful.
Of all the human stories to come out of World War II, this one, to me, is to me the most compelling. It had everything. Brutal governor, assassination, reprisal, betrayal, last stand. I visited the church in Prague in 2018. Very poignant and somber memorial there.
Anthropoid is the best of the 3 movies I know of this story. 1: Anthropoid 2: Operation Daybreak 3: Man with the Iron Heart All great movies but Anthropoid is the closet to historical fact and top of the list!
Waiting. Waiting. Knowing every second, every breath, every move, these are your last moments alive. You know this. And you keep taking those steps towards that purpose that brings your death here on this street, or to be captured later. My god, what courage.
@@pc3983 Sniper rifles back then were inaccurate over 100 meters, few and far between and expensive as hell, just like today. They would have had to acquire this expensive gun, train for hours shooting it (at heart rate 150+) and then make plans for stopping the car etc. And still have a grenade as backup if the shooter missed. Tbh 5 grenades would have been far better, cars back then were not armored very well.
@@barath4545😂 wtf buddy that doesn’t make any sense you can plink 100 meters with a .22 all day long one eye closed and on irons. When your dealing with 30 caliber rifles you are getting much better than 100 yards of practical accuracy especially with an optics which weren’t rare and available since ww1 so Everything you said is just wrong and it psychically hurts because you typed it with such confidence believing you KNEW it
Fun fact. The original mercedes car is at a private museum in Denmark. owned by multimillionaire Ole Falck. It has been restored but the damages is still visible. Who knows what this historical piece is worth
It was septicaemia that eventually killed Heydrich caused by tiny pieces of the dry horse hair seat padding that festered in his wound, he died 8 days after the attack...
I also used to believe that. But after experiencing the Bulovka hospital myself, few years ago, I believe there was no sepsis and he just died from the surgery at that cursed medieval place.
The seat was stuffed with horse tail hair, or, who knows, concentration camp victims hair.... Would be a good revenge. Hitler sent his two best doctors to save him, but he died of septicemia anyway.
@@littlebritain64 They could have saved him if they operated him immediately but the Nazis insisted that he should be operated by German doctors and not Czechs
Tbh Heydrich death was relatively unimportant, and only lead to several punitive actions against Czechs. Overall Operation Anthropoid hadn't really any notable effect on war effort.
5:20 this was the moment Heydrich's fate was sealed: had he ordered his driver to gun it and run over the gunman, the assassination attempt would've failed.
@@duartesimoes508 I'm not sure if these weapons where available at the time. Mp40 was a replacement for the Thompson smg.. Mid forties? Uzi.. Fifties or sixties?. Dad said a fifty round drum from the Thompson was a day spoiler for telacabier rioters
@spizzardo sorry. Was confusing mp 40, the German weapon with the American made "grease gun" firing the. 45apc round. It shares the same numerical. My father's favourite weapon to fire was always the bren. I fired it in the later 7.62 nato round format. It never missed. Thank you for sharing your knowledge
I have a deep respect for all heroes that took part in Anthropoid. But, being from Žilina region of Slovakia, I am very proud of Jožko Gabčík (the one with the sten gun). While Slovakia did not suffer German occupation (unlike Czechia and Moravia), he could have just patiently wait for war's end. But his patriotic and anti-fascist convictions compelled him to emigrate to UK and volunteer. Admirable person, eternal glory to him and other heroes of Czech and Slovak resistance.
Bohemia and Moravia didnt suffer from the occupation; they were never bombed, had enough too eat and didnt had to serve in the war. They had czech schools czech national art and czech police. The only thing they did was kill 800.000 germans and oppress their hungarian and slovak neighbours.
@@fidus868 Czech police was under fully control of gestapo. I don't know where are you from, but you're spitting good bullshit stuff. I am proud Czech, Germans (nazis) killed 365,000 innocent people, 5,000 were decapitated under guillotine. I don't know, what is your point with your comment. 800,000 germans? Which? You mean, the whole german families holded off from Czechoslovakia after war? I admit, it was badly realized. It was managed by people, who were living 6 years under permanent fear, many of them lost somebody from their families. - violence is just producing another kind of violence (action and reaction) Czechs don't need to serve? And who really must serve? No one obligatory. Because Czechs were (and still are) slavic pertinence, they couldn't. In SS divisions were some volunteers like from Denmark, Norway, France (!!!) , Estonia, Latvia etc. Maybe from Czechoslovakia too, but let's be honest, rather say from Slovakia. I am not disclaiming history, but your thread is one big nonsense. Think about it.
Those two man names are Jozef Gabčík (Slovak) and Jan Kubiš (Czech).... brave guys, who were fighting in a Saints Cyril and Methodius Cathedral in Prague, until they haven´t any munition so they killed themself so nazis wouldn´t get them alive... Deep bow to heroes like these.. 27.5.1942, we won´t forget you
It's a bit frustrating that nobody actually knows how the assassination was performed. Virtually all people involved were killed or committed suicide. For example, nobody knows if Valčík and Opálka were also present. The only survivor out of the wide assassination cell - Ladislav Vaněk - was an egomaniac and fabulist, who saved his life thanks to a collaboration with the Gestapo. He invented the legend about Valčík giving a sign with a hand mirror - although it was cloudy on that day.
There is also no real evidence that the sequence of machine gun first and then a bomb actually happened as the SOE training had it in exactly opposite order... first stop the moving vehicle with a bomb and then finish up the crew with the machine gun. It also makes more logical sense.
Never forget that only fuelled people to hate the nazi more and kill them back. Also in addition the Czech factory workers who were in charge of producing rifles for the germans, sabotage mausur rifle sights which affected the combat performance of German soldiers.
On a trip to Prague we visited the actual site of the assassination which has greatly altered since that awesome event but some landmarks still discernible. Following this we went to the church where these heroic Czechs and Slovaks died fighting the Germans. So moving and poignant.
Saw the movie in 2016 and recently visited Prague and the Church. The door leading to the crypt really is a special piece of art really captures the feeling of being stuck. Please check it out when you are in Prague. Beautiful city with a rich history! Děkuji Praha!
Went to see the national museum in Prague a couple of years ago and it contained one of the most incredible war relics I’ve ever seen. It was a woollen jumper taken from one of these selfless hero’s. To stand so close the an item that has such powerful history attached to it was incredibly moving and is testament to the bravery of Czech people. Viewing the jumper certainly makes you pause and reflect on what bravery and heroism really means. Who would have thought a piece of clothing could do that.
sangobegger morrison pay a visit to the Kiyv War Museum, and the room dedicated to the Soviet Afghanistan war, and you will have the very same feeling. So many personal items there, so many lives wiped out.
Were they selfless? They knew perfectly well that killing this one man would result in hundreds if not thousands of innocent civilians getting executed. Was it worth it? The British trained them and didn't care about Czech casualties, but these men should care
@@egonjensen7667 Mate, they were SOLDIERS. They executed their orders. They actually sent out (on the request by domestic resistance) to their superiors in London to cancel Heydrich's assassination and go for less high profile target. The request was not approved. So they executed the orders. And note that domestic resistance that was strongly opposed the assassination went along and supported them all the way .
@@egonjensen7667 Sentiment like this is one of the reasons why for example French Resistance is more associated with the "Alo Alo" comedy than real achievements against German occupation...
@@egonjensen7667 The British did care about Czech casualties. The assassination was conceived precisely to generate those casualties because Heydrich's carrot and stick policy was starting to succeed in reducing resistance. Callous but effective.
Heavy price that’s putting it mildly this operation was not worth it whilst the bravery is not up for question up till this point they weren’t levelin towns killing male population and sending the rest to death camps Only to be replaced by another cu@“ Just mho
@@tvamp88 This operation was crucial to the nullification of the Munich Agreement by Britain and France in 1942. In contributed to the fact that Czechoslovakia was restored in the Pre-Munich borders in 1945. So it was definitely worth it.
He was about to be appointed to go to Paris and do the same job he did in Czechoslovakia Moravia Bohemia, and get rid of all the French Resistance in France, he has been called to a meeting in Berlin with Adolf Hitler, a meeting that he would never be able to go because of his assassination... Hitler called Heydrich the man with the iron heart. For Hitler, he was the man for the job, because he showed no mercy for any resistance to the German occupation, or to anyone else for that matter, even high member of the party were scared of this man, he was the chief of the SD and the Gestapo and he was very very good to find out every secrets or anything in the past of peoples. Some once accused him of having Jewish blood, the next days he came with all his ancestors historic to show that he had no Jewish blood at all... This man was very intelligent, some called him "Himmler brain", because each time he came with a good idea for the third Reich, he would go tell his idea to his hierarchical superior who was Himmler and Himmler was a loser, he would came and tell Hitler it was his own ideas. All this to say he rapidly gained a reputation of a man not to mess with among the top ranked members of the third Reich, a lot got arrested by the Gestapo and disappeared after messing with him.... The man with the iron heart, this say a lot about the kind of person he was.
@ They weren't a criminal organisation because they've existed prior to the Anschluss and the fact it was headed by NS Germany between 1938-1945 doesn't mean it was part of the Nazi regime, let alone created by them. Interpol was effectively boycotted during that time, by other nations around the world, that were initially supportive of Interpol.
Great how the Czech guys killed this monster. What little is known is that the Polish Resistance carried out dozens of attacks on German commanders in Poland, the largest series being that codenamed "Operation Heads". Dozens of additional assassinations were carried out, the best-known being: Operation Bürkl-Franz Bürkl, SS-Oberscharführer, Gestapo officer, and commandant of the Pawiak prison, assassinated 7 September 1943. Operation Kutschera-Franz Kutschera, SS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor of Ordnungspolizei SS and Police Leader of the Warsaw District, assassinated 1 February 1944
No, he was not. He was reckless. And he thought there was only one assinater. So he made the car stop to fire at the man. The other that had not the stan gun threw the hand granade which was a special one with more fire power.
@@chiranjibsahoo7833 No. You can be brave and evil. Hitler was evil and brave. He proved it on the battlefields of ww1 and later in his political career and then by making war choices that would have crippled the minds of others. Having the guts to do something does not mean however that you are a good person. Tha same stands with good men. You can be good and a coward in the moment of need.
@SSJ they absolutely did not. What a disgrace. The Czechs named Heidrich "¨the Butcher of Prague" solely because how many people were shot every week. Those foreign agents you mean were of Czechoslovakian nationality. Shut up about things you don´t know a thing about.
@@user-oh2kt8lf6g 7.62×54r even fired from an obrez is deadlier than any pistol caliber at that time,but i agree it can also jam it is bolt gun so slow firing rate and he could miss the target
@@user-mv2pr6fl8x He would have killed many more. And you can not fold before murderer. That was mistake of '38. He deserved it just as any damned nazi bastard. "From the higher moral principle, a murder of the tyrant is not a crime!" (Jan Drda, The Higher Principle)
Can anyone who knows history better than me how this action saved lives? Presumably Heydrich was just replaced with another Nazi and security was stepped up?
These were my grandads friends, they were in the same unit. They all trained together up in Scotland with the Commando’s/SOE. Luckily, for some reason or another, my grandad didn’t go, else I wouldn’t be here!
It's quite true. There is a book of Himmler's "love letters" with his wife, or what they thought "love letters" looked like. The language is stereotyped, it almost reads like receipts - "I will send you a new slave to work in the garden", "oh good and don't forget to send me such-and-such delicacies from France too" over and over again. Himmler and his wife (and their daughter too) were really textbook sociopaths, it is so obvious from their letters, any actual human feelings are absent, it's all phrases stuck together, repetitive, ice cold, like robots writing copypasta. Heydrich was Himmler's man for "creative thinking", which basically means inventing new ways to butcher people.
Being a Czech patriot, seeing this makes me so incredibly proud. These soldiers were one of the bravest and most selfless people ever to come from our country. They were willing to sacrifice their lives for the freedom of their homeland and to rid our nation and the world of the Nazi monster that was Heydrich. Eternal respect for these heroes! EDIT: 80 years since the assassination today. Honor and Glory for Josef Gabčík, Jan Kubiš and all of their brothers in arms and also the people who helped them!
@@vaclavmalecek2917 the own half of your economy at the moment, even Skoda is German, don't complain and accept that at the end, the conquered you nicely ;)
Balls of hardened steel. If you to get an inkling of how evil Hydrich was and Nazism still is are two films about the Wansee Konference in January 1942; one is an English language version, the other is in German with English sub titles. Hitler was in the throes of sending Hydrich to Paris when the Czech assassins did their job.
Yep, Heydrich was evil as FUCK, it is only a shame that he didn't (along with Hitler) get the same fate as that fat fuck Mussolini. BTW, the actor looks A LOT like the real Heydrich, I had to check the actors face twice, just to make sure he wasn't the real one 😂😂😂!
Heydrich died a slow, agonizing death over several days in the hospital from glass shredding his internal organs. Before anyone is tempted to feel a smidgeon of sympathy, it is worth remembering that while in a hospital bed dying, Heydrich was signing his name to scores of execution warrants against suspected plotters. Score one for the assassins.
Score like a milloin for heydrich as assassins actions caused the destruction of lidlice. The town and majority of its people were killed because of their actions.
@@johannessimola1615 Not the assassins actions, Nazi Actions. And important to note, Nazi brutality served to turn freindly nations, who welcomed the liberation from Communism - against them. This is exactly why the Brits wanted this operation, and the SS played to their hands.
@@reuvenpolonskiy2544 For starters. National sosialismn((nazi) was a right wing ideology. Like further from USSR than anything else). Assansins actions is only correc way to call it.Gavrilo Princip killed the family of crown prince of austro-hungary and because was underaged in the constutian was spared from death later killed. Killed himself of life lost in ww1. Its not hitler, comnunist or nazis why the people died its because of the actions of the assasins. Lastly hitler was morally better than all USSR leader combined. From love From finland.
@@johannessimola1615 I've heard a convincing arguement (from non neo nazis) that national socialism is actually socialism. But instead of the working classes holding the means of production it is a race that controls the means of production. Basically a branch of marxist socialism in the same way leninist and trotsky were developments upon marx's ideas.
My great-grandmother knew Josef Valčík, i, m really proud of that, she worked with him before the war started and he escaped to the Britain and she recognized him after the atentat
@@TheWesternunionman Thats true, i dont lie, he lived in Smolina and it is near and almost all his family was after Anthropoid killed, only 2 small siblings survived i think, but that is true, if you want, i can speak with you, that story told to me my father with my grandmother
@@TheWesternunionman He was very patriotic and he was good, but after Anthropoid nazis burned lots of villages, even 2 near his village and lots of people was killed after Anthropoid, but it was succesful mission
Heydrich didn’t actually die until about a week after the attack, it’s thought from sepsis caused by horse hair from the inside of the car seat making its way into one of his wounds. The wounds themselves weren’t all that serious, and if not for the sepsis Heydrich would probably have survived
For those who talk about the awful cost of the German retaliation after the assassination and question whether it was worth it. Sadly millions of people died as a result of this war created by Germany. At that time Czechoslovakia had become rather too complacent about the German occupation churning out high grade weaponry and armaments in their factories for the Axis war machine. The assassination and atrocities that followed severely disrupted all that and gave the Czechs and Slovaks an everlasting pride that some of their compatriots were prepared to give their lives in defence of their homeland against the brutal German occupiers.
Sadly the allies betrayed Czechoslovakia before the war and after it too, where were the allies when we needed them most?, and where were they in 1938, 1948 and 1968-NOWHERE, because they didn't care for Czechoslovakia a one bit...for us the occupation started already in 1938/9, and the allies were in that time doing their policy of appeasemeant=it wasn't even a policy rather a term to hide that they were scared and cowards...
krystal cz Sadly much of what you say is true. Small countries in Europe became mere pawns in the Giants game of chess of WW 11 and its aftermath. But in defence of my own country Great Britain we stood alone against the might of Nazi Germany until Germany turned on their erstwhile allies Russia and USA entered the war. Now peace and democracy reigns in Europe helped brought about by the actions and sacrifice of countless heroes like Josef Gobcik and Jan Kubis.
@@krystalcz9251 1938 byla regulérní zrada. 1968 je diskutabilní co vlastně mohl kdo udělat (hrozba jaderné války taky hraje roli) ? 1948 nesouhlasím chránit před kým ? Před Českou vládou která měla v roce 1948 ať se nám to líbí nebo ne podporu spousty ba dokonce většiny Čechů ?
I got to fire some hundred rounds with a MK III recently. Most often it didn't discharge at all, just like in the film. The most I got out of it was a 6-8 round burst followed by a feed failure. The MP40 on the other hand was reduced to a single shot muzzle loader since our only magazine broke down.
The Czech resistance was very passive at the time. The Allies (and exile government) didn’t want to kill heydrich so much as to get the Germans to retaliate and by that get more Czech resistance. A cynical plan that somewhat worked but costed many Czech lives and ultimately not changed the fate of the Czech at all
@@bingobongo1615 If Heydrich had not been assassinated, he would have slaughtered a lot more people. Also a lot more Czech people would have been killed. He was a total psycho, he even was one of the creators of the systematic mass killings. So the death of this person definitely did change the fate of the Czech. Those two villages that got wiped out afterwards were a "minor" price in comparison to what he would have done in the Protectorate by the end of the war. And it did, in fact, change the Czech fate at the international level. Only after this attack, the Munich treaty was officially disapproved by other countries. If it were not for this assassination, they would most likely still recognize the treaty as official. The country of Czechoslovakia that was renewed after the war might have looked differently if it were not for this assassination. It would be a lot harder to gain international recognition. Foreign leaders basically started taking the Czech a lot more seriously after this.
@@mth469 Read about his driver during this event, that man was a dedicated man who didnt care about dying. You rather a man like that then more bodyguards who you dont know would react in that scenario.
Heydrich actually died from blood poisoning, this was attributed to the horse hair stuffing as used in the Mercedes upholstery contaminating his wounds. If the SOE assassins had used an MP40 instead of sten then things would have been so different.
@@ConstantineJoseph The Sten was indeed easier to take apart and then re-assemble. It was better suited to this kind of underground warfare, but it won no laurels in Anthropoid.
Visited the actual church were they took refuge, bullet holes still on outside of building. Fantastic city to visit, this was an awesome story and the reprisals were brutal, really moving and it wasn’t till I visited that I realised how much the Germans were despised.
I actually visited the place where this took place. It no longer exists since the road was reshaped but you still get a good impression how it must have been
There were more such actions in Poland. One of the many organized actions was The Action Heads. The destroyed Lidice in the Czech Republic cannot be compared to hundreds of burned villages in Poland. The Germans murdered 20 percent of the population. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Heads
@@scandik100 Thanks for the info. However the "Kutschera action" is my favorite undertaking of our Polsh underground. Here I share some interesting vid with reconstruction of the action. Unfortunately there is no english subtitles thus not everybody will understand ruclips.net/video/ccdylhhkX7Q/видео.html
We don't really hear much about the Polish resistance (in England, anyway). It seems to get lost in mix of more famous chapters of the war. I'll certainly look into it, though. That being said, we are more aware of the valuable contribution made by our Polish friends to the RAF, Battle of Britain etc. Thanks.
@@goodyeoman4534 Np. That video mentioned above is very interesting. There is an interview with the actual conspiracy member pseud. Dewajtis that has participated in this action. This action was undertaken on the basis of the order of General Emil Filedorf - Nil. He was after the end of WW II arrested and then killed in the prison by the communists . Best Regards
Love how absolutely livid Heydrich looks during the assassination. He looks *pissed* that someone would even _dare_ to point a gun at him. Great work by the Actor.
have you lost your mind? do you think that if you were being murdered you would feel happy or something?
Heydrich was very arrogant, but his wife those was a power hungry whore, she was the one who got him into the political party, she was the one who pushed him into doing more (committing war crimes so that he could get a higher rank) his wife deserved assassination, him to but his wife definitely played a big part into what he did,
He was one tough mofo and famously commanded fear and respect. It is said the likes of Himmler had great inferiority complex comparing themselves to Heydrich, formally his subordinate.
Honestly if someone started shooting at you and you had a pistol and went into fight mode you’d be pretty pissed too haha
@@drtg101we7 No, in fact most people probably wouldnt stand up yelling and give chase when ambushed by enemy paratroopers.
One of the few assassination attempts where the gun failed and and bomb worked
@Bartolomew Cruel Nazi bas...rds
@Bartolomew More than 1300, about 5000 peple were executed as revenge, not only Lidice and Ležáky, but I think they had to do it even for that price, he invented holocaust with Himmler and gas chambers, he had to die for any price. Also assasination of Heydrich very helped us in world, we were seen as occupied nation after that, not like nazi allies.
@@Pidalin They did same in Serbia, our soldiers killed 12 Nazis and left their bodies, then they ordered killing of 2800 people, innocent civilians from city of Kragujevac.
@Bartolomew it was worth it. If he didn’t die he would have ordered tens of thousands more deaths sooner or later
Yes, the opposite of the death of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo: the bombs did not kill the target, the gun of Gavrilo Prinzip did.
Heydrich died of sepsis from his wounds a few days later, horse hair from the car seat became embedded in his wounds.
Pain and misery, way to go🔥🔥
Really
Sad.
@@sarue490 Why?
@@strategie_a_minecraft1521 because it is.
man the days when everyone wore three piece suits with overcoats on a hot summer day and smoked like chimneys.
Ah the much lauded good old sten gun. My Father while serving in the Welsh Regiment in the Ardennes in 1945 was shot in the leg by his own corporal who dropped his sten gun (and it fired ) while marching behind my Father. Whilst in the field hospital the surgeon asked my Father how he was shot and after being told, the surgeon said 'those bloody sten guns are killing more of our troops than than Germans'.
I read of one being dropped on the ground while the bolt was in the "safety" slot and it fired off a complete magazine, fortunately without hitting anyone.
lots of allies picked up and used the German MP38 and MP40. The Tommy guns were prone to jamming and best suited to Al Capone
@@robbey300 Yes you are right, one man in my Father's platoon always carried an MP40 and a Luger PO8.
@@robintripp8164 So he was carrying garbage pistol. "Smart" idea
KEVIN ROBSON that was when they initially used the drum magazines
this scene was so accurate... they werent nervous because of their plan they knew what they went to but Heydrich was never late he was precise as hell. That day he had 5 minute delay and one of the assassins didnt show up wich could only mean that he snitched them or that he ran away. The malfulction of the gun was also right because thats what happened to the shooter and how the shrapnel killed Heydrich from the back was also true according to his autopsy. Also the tram that was next to Heydrichs car was there. That said... this was spot on
Well in reality no bystanders were hit by bullets, but the tram did get hit with shrapnel from the bomb. Heydrich was later evacuated by Czech citizens in the back of a coal lorry to the nearest hospital, he was completely covered in black soot when he arrived. The book HHHH by Laurent Binet is a must-read, it covers it all
@@s.t.lacroix372 oh then our history teacher maybe colored things a little so it would sound better :D he was very smart and i always wanted to spread the information that he told us beacuse it was entertaining :D thank you for correction btw.
I was under the impression that he actually died from poisoning, from the material in his seat, which infected the wound.
@@charlescalthrop2535 autopsy revealed death caused by the sepsis from the wound.
The consequences were horrible, represions, hunt for operators GESTAPO were more brutal, than ever been in wholle existence of The Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia. The final epic fight in the church in Resslova street is widely known. I am great patriot with high sense for responsibility to my family, loved ones, friends, loved motherland and The Mankind, so I deeply bow down infront our national heroes.
Amazing how they managed to clone Heydrich and raise him to adulthood just to do this scene.
Amazing that Thommy Shelby stopped selling betting tickets and moved on to assassinations. Truly one of the histories of all time!
He later became Oppenheimer.)
@@aslan_kz_97Bro was killing fascists in more than one way!
He was sick of Arthur shouting 'by order of the peaky blinders' at the top of his lungs
This was just before he escaped at Dunkirk
He's quite the best man for the job 😂
damn they found a pretty good heydrich actor
looks like the real one
IKR
Heydrich in movie Atentat (Czech movie, 1964, director Jiri Sequens) looks like better, more realistic.
@@Jirka_Globus No
Fun fact, heindrich actually came out of retirement to play this role 😁😁😁
@@Jirka_Globus no
Never knew Tommy Shelby OBE was the mastermind behind the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.
Haider Kashif peaky blinders 8th season behind the scenes
Too bad he didn't dropped Mosley, that fascist pig
He wasn't. This is only an actor.
@@ukaszszczepaniak1338 It’s a joke, don’t worry.
The Czech Government issued the orders for Heydrich's murder.
In reality, Heydrich's overconfidence and stupidity ended up being what cost him his life. During the real assassination attempt, Jozef didn't actually stand in the road, rather he stood on the edge of the pavement to take the shot as the car slowed down, but his gun jammed. Heydrich saw this and, ever the smug and overconfident asshole he was, ordered his driver to stop instead of accelerate out of there so he could shoot the man who had just tried to kill him. This of course proved to be a fatal mistake on Heydrich's part as it gave Jan an opening to throw a bomb under the car, with shrapnel going into his body and horse hair from the car seat becoming lodged in the wounds. He died in hospital of sepsis several days later.
So Oppenheimer killed Heydrich
fr😂😂
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Don’t be stupid it was Tommy Shelby
By order of the peaky blinders
hahaha
HAHAHAHAHa
Um...what? Sorry to be so ignorant, but what?
@@Nounismisation The actor with the jammed machine gun (Cillian Murphy) is one of the main characters in the series Peaky Blinders. In that show a lot of gangster stuff goes down followed by the catchphrase "By order of the Peaky Blinders!".
@@DaLiJeIOvoImeZauzeto wow, someone who actually explains something instead of insulting someone for not knowing. I don't believe it.
Clinical viewpoint of Heydrich's death:
Hospitalised at Bulovka Hospital, there was a deep wound of about ten centimetres in the left paravertebral region. The X-ray shows a left pneumothorax, fracture of the 11th rib and metal in the spleen. In the following operation, the spleen was removed, the pancreas was sutured and a peritoneal drain was placed. The patient’s condition improves rapidly, but on June 2, the patient’s temperature rises and the drainage fluid becomes more important. On 3 June, everything seems to be back in order when, in the night, he falls into a coma and dies at 4:30 in the morning.
Unfortunately, autopsy was only partially performed as neither the brain nor the cervical region were analyzed and no toxicological analysis was performed. Analysis of this report could lead to the hypothesis of pulmonary embolism with heart failure in a condition aggravated by infection: non-hemolytic streptococci, Staphylococcus and Proteus were identified in the drainage fluid.
Not true. He died of Covid.
We will never know what exactly happened. Himmler's personal doctor was sent to look after Heydrich. Himmler was the 2nd man in Reich and was incredibly afraid of Heydrich. They were enemies. Hence I think it is also possible that Himmler's doctor could have helped him to the other side somehow. Heydrich's health was improving but then all of a sudden his temperature rised and he died within hours. P.S. Name of the hospital was Bulovka - not Bulkova.
@@MuddahFukkah "We're getting a doctor"
"Oh good"
"A Nazi doctor"
"Just shoot me now"
@@MuddahFukkah I thought Heydrich was Himmler's favorite SS man? His physical appearance was the embodiment of the German master race?
Not Bulkova hospital, but Bulovka
Jammed gun prolonged Heydrich's life for one week.
That Czech tram is dope, it is stealing the show! What a neat vehicle.
That's what happens when you try to make a submachine gun out of bedsprings.
Sten gun was so unreliable.
People in Prague were known to collect bags of grass for their rabbits which were kept as food. That’s why he hid the Sten in a bag of grass, to fool a cursory search. It is possible, and shown in the scene when he fits the magazine, that grass got stuck in the weapon as it was being assembled. The Sten wasn’t that bad, as seen in the church battle near the end of the film.
@@Rick-ve5lx thats not true
Jiří Dušek What, none of it?
@@Rick-ve5lx yep. First I dont know about Prague prople having rabbits specially in the war when it was all confiscated. In particular bag was no grass and no grass was mentioned in german report in which they concluded why the gun didnt fire. Which I read. Reason was jammed round. Considering stenguns used to jam almost always anyone tried use the gun holding the gun by the magazine, the british doctrine forbid soldiers to grab it by mag. At the time of assasination the gun was new and these things were not known. Considering the stengun had removed stock and therefore had no handle and shooter probably held it by the magazine while chambering the round it probably didnt feed corectly andntried to shoot the gun by pulling the trigger without support. There are already two factores playing against chambering the round.
To top it off the heydrichs driver that followed gabcik accidently dropped magazine from his pistol so it was a double cluster fuck.
Jiří Dušek I’ve just finished reading a book called “The assassination of Reinhard Heydrich” by CA MacDonald in which he writes about the grass in the bag (which is presumably correctly shown in the Anthropoid movie). My previous points were from this book. You’re right about the magazine being the weak point of this weapon. However the assassin was trained by the British in it’s use before parachuting to Czechoslovakia so presumably he used it correctly, or at least knew how to do so. I still think it failed to fire due to grass inside it because he assembled it by feel while it was in a bag of grass! In any case the mission was successful.
Of all the human stories to come out of World War II, this one, to me, is to me the most compelling. It had everything. Brutal governor, assassination, reprisal, betrayal, last stand. I visited the church in Prague in 2018. Very poignant and somber memorial there.
Heydrich, arguably the biggest bastard of them all....
@@eamoc You aren't wrong...I will never know if it is justice, god, karma, fate or luck. But I'm glad that utter bastard died.
Have you read about Operation Kutschera ?
@@mwnciboo and preferably herded in to a gas chamber with the rest of the Fascist/NAZI scum
spiety75 I just did a quick read-through for the first time. Sounds like an amazing event also. Thank you for the info. I will look into it more.
Reinhard Heydrich was a monster.
REALLY????😨😨😨😨😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
Most radical Nazi
Anthropoid is the best of the 3 movies I know of this story.
1: Anthropoid
2: Operation Daybreak
3: Man with the Iron Heart
All great movies but Anthropoid is the closet to historical fact and top of the list!
i liked the Daybreak most
@@doposud It was very sad . V
@@BbBb-cl5py Becose it followed history
The Assassination 1964
dont know if you will see this since its been 2 years and its kinda off topic, but what are your opinions on "Conspiracy" and "Come and See"?
That actor's the spitting image of Reinhard Heydrich.
I was thinking that too 1st time I saw the video!
@Jack Jack Don´t tell them any BS... It´s Detlef Bothe.
Waiting. Waiting. Knowing every second, every breath, every move, these are your last moments alive. You know this. And you keep taking those steps towards that purpose that brings your death here on this street, or to be captured later. My god, what courage.
@𝕯𝖗.𝕻𝖊𝖗𝖚𝖓 go in an hospital
I would prefer sniping from a distance
@@pc3983 Sniper rifles back then were inaccurate over 100 meters, few and far between and expensive as hell, just like today.
They would have had to acquire this expensive gun, train for hours shooting it (at heart rate 150+) and then make plans for stopping the car etc.
And still have a grenade as backup if the shooter missed.
Tbh 5 grenades would have been far better, cars back then were not armored very well.
@@barath4545😂 wtf buddy that doesn’t make any sense
you can plink 100 meters with a .22 all day long one eye closed and on irons.
When your dealing with 30 caliber rifles you are getting much better than 100 yards of practical accuracy especially with an optics which weren’t rare and available since ww1 so
Everything you said is just wrong and it psychically hurts because you typed it with such confidence believing you KNEW it
@@barath4545nonsense.
Fun fact. The original mercedes car is at a private museum in Denmark. owned by multimillionaire Ole Falck. It has been restored but the damages is still visible. Who knows what this historical piece is worth
It was the leather fabric of the seat of the Mercedes which ultimately killed Heydrich.
It was septicaemia that eventually killed Heydrich caused by tiny pieces of the dry horse hair seat padding that festered in his wound, he died 8 days after the attack...
I also used to believe that. But after experiencing the Bulovka hospital myself, few years ago, I believe there was no sepsis and he just died from the surgery at that cursed medieval place.
horrrible way to die, horrible man.
The seat was stuffed with horse tail hair, or, who knows, concentration camp victims hair.... Would be a good revenge. Hitler sent his two best doctors to save him, but he died of septicemia anyway.
@@littlebritain64 They could have saved him if they operated him immediately but the Nazis insisted that he should be operated by German doctors and not Czechs
6 am is the perfect time to find it in recommended vids.
I got here at 7:00am ;)
It's 23:01 where I am right now, England.
3am i confirm
Same
I got here in 4 am
A better day's work was never done. RIP to those heroes. We each owe them a debt.
amen brother!
So true
That man was pure evil
Tbh Heydrich death was relatively unimportant, and only lead to several punitive actions against Czechs. Overall Operation Anthropoid hadn't really any notable effect on war effort.
This actually escalated the situation even more
@@TovKafur Only after Anthropoid was Munich agreement revoked. So it had a big impact
I swear watching this felt like the longest tense five minutes before the assassination. Kudos to these brave men. Fight the power!
assassnitation?!.. Please it was execution of a realy bad bad and evil man..
@@edgarkrattiger9185 Execution or not, still assassination.
@@kamilkrupinski1793 So pray 4 him...and don't cry...
@@edgarkrattiger9185 I won`t, even if I believed in praying, he was an evil bastard. What is your point?
fight the power by fighting the ones who tried to fight the power ✊️
5:20 this was the moment Heydrich's fate was sealed: had he ordered his driver to gun it and run over the gunman, the assassination attempt would've failed.
With 2020 vision yea! 🤔
He was a scumbag but he had iron balls
That's the problem when a gun costs seven shillings and six pence to make, don't be surprised when it fails. My father, a REME armouurer hated them
Ano,požadavek byl na americké thompsony :(
@@angelofdeath1896 Well... That makes perfect sense
Next time take a MP-40 or a .45 Auto. Or Grab an UZI or a MP-5 from the SOE timetravel department.
@@duartesimoes508 I'm not sure if these weapons where available at the time. Mp40 was a replacement for the Thompson smg.. Mid forties? Uzi.. Fifties or sixties?. Dad said a fifty round drum from the Thompson was a day spoiler for telacabier rioters
@spizzardo sorry. Was confusing mp 40, the German weapon with the American made "grease gun" firing the. 45apc round. It shares the same numerical. My father's favourite weapon to fire was always the bren. I fired it in the later 7.62 nato round format. It never missed. Thank you for sharing your knowledge
I have a deep respect for all heroes that took part in Anthropoid. But, being from Žilina region of Slovakia, I am very proud of Jožko Gabčík (the one with the sten gun). While Slovakia did not suffer German occupation (unlike Czechia and Moravia), he could have just patiently wait for war's end. But his patriotic and anti-fascist convictions compelled him to emigrate to UK and volunteer. Admirable person, eternal glory to him and other heroes of Czech and Slovak resistance.
Bohemia and Moravia didnt suffer from the occupation; they were never bombed, had enough too eat and didnt had to serve in the war. They had czech schools czech national art and czech police. The only thing they did was kill 800.000 germans and oppress their hungarian and slovak neighbours.
Don't you mean anti Nazi ?
@@fidus868 to cut a long story short you are a moron
@@fidus868 True story, that the czechs dont want to hear.
@@fidus868 Czech police was under fully control of gestapo. I don't know where are you from, but you're spitting good bullshit stuff. I am proud Czech, Germans (nazis) killed 365,000 innocent people, 5,000 were decapitated under guillotine. I don't know, what is your point with your comment. 800,000 germans? Which? You mean, the whole german families holded off from Czechoslovakia after war? I admit, it was badly realized. It was managed by people, who were living 6 years under permanent fear, many of them lost somebody from their families.
- violence is just producing another kind of violence (action and reaction)
Czechs don't need to serve? And who really must serve? No one obligatory. Because Czechs were (and still are) slavic pertinence, they couldn't. In SS divisions were some volunteers like from Denmark, Norway, France (!!!) , Estonia, Latvia etc. Maybe from Czechoslovakia too, but let's be honest, rather say from Slovakia. I am not disclaiming history, but your thread is one big nonsense. Think about it.
Those two man names are Jozef Gabčík (Slovak) and Jan Kubiš (Czech).... brave guys, who were fighting in a Saints Cyril and Methodius Cathedral in Prague, until they haven´t any munition so they killed themself so nazis wouldn´t get them alive... Deep bow to heroes like these.. 27.5.1942, we won´t forget you
It's a bit frustrating that nobody actually knows how the assassination was performed. Virtually all people involved were killed or committed suicide. For example, nobody knows if Valčík and Opálka were also present. The only survivor out of the wide assassination cell - Ladislav Vaněk - was an egomaniac and fabulist, who saved his life thanks to a collaboration with the Gestapo. He invented the legend about Valčík giving a sign with a hand mirror - although it was cloudy on that day.
Heydrichs driver survived
There is also no real evidence that the sequence of machine gun first and then a bomb actually happened as the SOE training had it in exactly opposite order... first stop the moving vehicle with a bomb and then finish up the crew with the machine gun. It also makes more logical sense.
Never forget the bloody retaliation of the nazis after the death of Heydrich : the massacre of the village of Lidice near Prague !
And ležaky
Those Nazi bastards even filmed the massacre of Lidice.
Never forget that only fuelled people to hate the nazi more and kill them back. Also in addition the Czech factory workers who were in charge of producing rifles for the germans, sabotage mausur rifle sights which affected the combat performance of German soldiers.
Zurecht!
You are not even 90 and you tell us that
On a trip to Prague we visited the actual site of the assassination which has greatly altered since that awesome event but some landmarks still discernible. Following this we went to the church where these heroic Czechs and Slovaks died fighting the Germans. So moving and poignant.
Eric Whiteley ....same...
Yes. I saw the remnants of the bullet holes left in the church. Very moving
I went there too, a lot of bullet holes in that crypt.
Saw the movie in 2016 and recently visited Prague and the Church. The door leading to the crypt really is a special piece of art really captures the feeling of being stuck. Please check it out when you are in Prague. Beautiful city with a rich history! Děkuji Praha!
God Bless all those Heroes who played their part in saving what was left of our world
Went to see the national museum in Prague a couple of years ago and it contained one of the most incredible war relics I’ve ever seen. It was a woollen jumper taken from one of these selfless hero’s. To stand so close the an item that has such powerful history attached to it was incredibly moving and is testament to the bravery of Czech people. Viewing the jumper certainly makes you pause and reflect on what bravery and heroism really means. Who would have thought a piece of clothing could do that.
sangobegger morrison pay a visit to the Kiyv War Museum, and the room dedicated to the Soviet Afghanistan war, and you will have the very same feeling. So many personal items there, so many lives wiped out.
Were they selfless? They knew perfectly well that killing this one man would result in hundreds if not thousands of innocent civilians getting executed. Was it worth it? The British trained them and didn't care about Czech casualties, but these men should care
@@egonjensen7667 Mate, they were SOLDIERS. They executed their orders. They actually sent out (on the request by domestic resistance) to their superiors in London to cancel Heydrich's assassination and go for less high profile target. The request was not approved.
So they executed the orders. And note that domestic resistance that was strongly opposed the assassination went along and supported them all the way .
@@egonjensen7667 Sentiment like this is one of the reasons why for example French Resistance is more associated with the "Alo Alo" comedy than real achievements against German occupation...
@@egonjensen7667 The British did care about Czech casualties. The assassination was conceived precisely to generate those casualties because Heydrich's carrot and stick policy was starting to succeed in reducing resistance. Callous but effective.
Although the Czechs paid a heavy price, who knows what additional atrocities HH would have perpetrated in Europe. He was evil through and through.
Heavy price that’s putting it mildly this operation was not worth it whilst the bravery is not up for question up till this point they weren’t levelin towns killing male population and sending the rest to death camps Only to be replaced by another cu@“ Just mho
@@tvamp88 This operation was crucial to the nullification of the Munich Agreement by Britain and France in 1942. In contributed to the fact that Czechoslovakia was restored in the Pre-Munich borders in 1945. So it was definitely worth it.
Heydrich was meant to root out the French resistance as his next objective, so it probably saved a lot of French lives.
He was about to be appointed to go to Paris and do the same job he did in Czechoslovakia Moravia Bohemia, and get rid of all the French Resistance in France, he has been called to a meeting in Berlin with Adolf Hitler, a meeting that he would never be able to go because of his assassination... Hitler called Heydrich the man with the iron heart. For Hitler, he was the man for the job, because he showed no mercy for any resistance to the German occupation, or to anyone else for that matter, even high member of the party were scared of this man, he was the chief of the SD and the Gestapo and he was very very good to find out every secrets or anything in the past of peoples. Some once accused him of having Jewish blood, the next days he came with all his ancestors historic to show that he had no Jewish blood at all... This man was very intelligent, some called him "Himmler brain", because each time he came with a good idea for the third Reich, he would go tell his idea to his hierarchical superior who was Himmler and Himmler was a loser, he would came and tell Hitler it was his own ideas. All this to say he rapidly gained a reputation of a man not to mess with among the top ranked members of the third Reich, a lot got arrested by the Gestapo and disappeared after messing with him.... The man with the iron heart, this say a lot about the kind of person he was.
Paid price? What price?
Poetic justice that it looked like Heydrich was going to recover, while an infection was developing inside him that would kill him with sepsis.
Another person who doesn't understand the actual meaning of poetic justice.
The suspense was so well done. I aged like two years watching this.
I know, right.. :D
Fun fact :Heydrich and his successor Kaltenbrunner were poth presidents of Interpol
Interpol was the only criminal organisation that has never been banned like NSDAP or SS
@ They weren't a criminal organisation because they've existed prior to the Anschluss and the fact it was headed by NS Germany between 1938-1945 doesn't mean it was part of the Nazi regime, let alone created by them. Interpol was effectively boycotted during that time, by other nations around the world, that were initially supportive of Interpol.
@@michaelk4896 He did not write saying it was a criminal organisation . He just mentioned as fact , they were the chiefs of Interpol .
@@samsum3738 I wasn't saying that either; I must've responded to someone who deleted his comment/account afterwards lol
Even Heydrich himself! I love how these guys recreated everything so accurately :D!
Great how the Czech guys killed this monster. What little is known is that the Polish Resistance carried out dozens of attacks on German commanders in Poland, the largest series being that codenamed "Operation Heads". Dozens of additional assassinations were carried out, the best-known being:
Operation Bürkl-Franz Bürkl, SS-Oberscharführer, Gestapo officer, and commandant of the Pawiak prison, assassinated 7 September 1943.
Operation Kutschera-Franz Kutschera, SS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor of Ordnungspolizei SS and Police Leader of the Warsaw District, assassinated 1 February 1944
thänx für das hochladen!!
This scene actively makes my heart beat faster
Lame
@@AntonioMartinez-yj4pd i think you meant based
Nothing beats the background score of the same scene in 'Operation Daybreak'!
It is 80 years today.
At least the guy portraying Heidrich looked like him as opposed to the film The Man with the Iron Heart
He drove in an open car without any bodyguards or security and even opened fire himself on the assassins?
As evil as was, he definitely was no coward.
No, he was not. He was reckless. And he thought there was only one assinater. So he made the car stop to fire at the man. The other that had not the stan gun threw the hand granade which was a special one with more fire power.
Evil is Evil. And evil people are cowards.
@@chiranjibsahoo7833 No. You can be brave and evil. Hitler was evil and brave. He proved it on the battlefields of ww1 and later in his political career and then by making war choices that would have crippled the minds of others. Having the guts to do something does not mean however that you are a good person. Tha same stands with good men. You can be good and a coward in the moment of need.
@SSJ He was killed in action by the Czech army.
@SSJ they absolutely did not. What a disgrace. The Czechs named Heidrich "¨the Butcher of Prague" solely because how many people were shot every week. Those foreign agents you mean were of Czechoslovakian nationality. Shut up about things you don´t know a thing about.
Long live the Czechoslovakian heroes!
they all die
I forgot Cillian Murphy was in this. Dude is a major star now!
This is a sensational scene, the movie is the best one about this operation against Heydrich, absolute must-see movie
The SMG failed due to its unreliable double stack but single-feed magazine.
Thank you, I was asking me why he couldn't shot.
Idk i might seem like comment warrior but a sawed off double barrel or obrez or pistol would do the job better than that crap sten.
@@david-yi6dm With obrez, you get no burst.
@@user-oh2kt8lf6g 7.62×54r even fired from an obrez is deadlier than any pistol caliber at that time,but i agree it can also jam it is bolt gun so slow firing rate and he could miss the target
DSSF.... recipe for failure and WD knew it!
Heydrich really was a monster.
I named my son after him.
He is now 14 years old.
@@z.weertje7209 You don't have any children stop lying to yourself.
@@hnys7976 I do, three !
@@z.weertje7209 do they take daily doses of attention seeking juice too. moron
They were really lucky to get him. Brave men. Undoubtedly saved thousands of lives.
In fact they don't, because of German retribution for the killing.
@@user-mv2pr6fl8x He would have killed many more. And you can not fold before murderer. That was mistake of '38. He deserved it just as any damned nazi bastard.
"From the higher moral principle, a murder of the tyrant is not a crime!" (Jan Drda, The Higher Principle)
@@user-mv2pr6fl8x In fact they did safe far more than people died in retributions. Dont use word in fact if you are wrong.
Can anyone who knows history better than me how this action saved lives? Presumably Heydrich was just replaced with another Nazi and security was stepped up?
@@user-mv2pr6fl8x Way more lives would be lost if he did survive.
rip to thousands people killed in retaliation after this.
These were my grandads friends, they were in the same unit. They all trained together up in Scotland with the Commando’s/SOE. Luckily, for some reason or another, my grandad didn’t go, else I wouldn’t be here!
Very proud of them I'm from Durham England
Le sang des braves coule en vous.
@@Granto-ni9qw They were Czech though
@@ex0dus248 And? Planes and ships exist you know... haha
They use to say Himmler's brain is Heydrich.
hhhh
It's quite true. There is a book of Himmler's "love letters" with his wife, or what they thought "love letters" looked like. The language is stereotyped, it almost reads like receipts - "I will send you a new slave to work in the garden", "oh good and don't forget to send me such-and-such delicacies from France too" over and over again. Himmler and his wife (and their daughter too) were really textbook sociopaths, it is so obvious from their letters, any actual human feelings are absent, it's all phrases stuck together, repetitive, ice cold, like robots writing copypasta. Heydrich was Himmler's man for "creative thinking", which basically means inventing new ways to butcher people.
Detlef Bothe was perfectly cast as Heydrich. Bears a strong resemblance to him...
Heydrich had some balls to stood up to a man pointing a gun at him and trying to counterattack
It's logic
June 4 should be International Bye-bye Heydrich Day.
Being a Czech patriot, seeing this makes me so incredibly proud. These soldiers were one of the bravest and most selfless people ever to come from our country. They were willing to sacrifice their lives for the freedom of their homeland and to rid our nation and the world of the Nazi monster that was Heydrich. Eternal respect for these heroes!
EDIT: 80 years since the assassination today. Honor and Glory for Josef Gabčík, Jan Kubiš and all of their brothers in arms and also the people who helped them!
bohemians are german
@@TheBarca1889 you dumb
the Czechs loved to have the germans in Prague... they always sell them selves to best side
@@javiereguez yeah, of course, we loved them. Because germans took a 1/3 of our land 🥰🥰🥰🥰 they are awsome, its our favorite nation
@@vaclavmalecek2917 the own half of your economy at the moment, even Skoda is German, don't complain and accept that at the end, the conquered you nicely ;)
Amazing performance of the actors!
As a German. Thank you to the Czech heroes!!!
what was Heydrich saying at 06:12 ? Mind telling me what that is?
@@shokaku123Hol denn einen ein -Go get that one
And the other guy - Komm her du feige Rate-Come here you cowardly rat
When Thomas Shelby is killing you with his gang, you know you made everything wrong
Balls of hardened steel. If you to get an inkling of how evil Hydrich was and Nazism still is are two films about the Wansee Konference in January 1942; one is an English language version, the other is in German with English sub titles. Hitler was in the throes of sending Hydrich to Paris when the Czech assassins did their job.
Czech murderers ?! Killing an aggressor is not murder !!!
@@Vitkanurek where did it say muderers?
@@Vitkanurek It still is murder but yeah its necessary
Yep, Heydrich was evil as FUCK, it is only a shame that he didn't (along with Hitler) get the same fate as that fat fuck Mussolini.
BTW, the actor looks A LOT like the real Heydrich, I had to check the actors face twice, just to make sure he wasn't the real one 😂😂😂!
@Rainer Wahnsinn Dear Rainer if you are stirring the polemic pot.......ha ha ha. If you are not, when you next meet evil, think again.
Look at 'Heydrich'! This is a stunning resemblance of the actor to his historical prototype.
Heydrich died a slow, agonizing death over several days in the hospital from glass shredding his internal organs. Before anyone is tempted to feel a smidgeon of sympathy, it is worth remembering that while in a hospital bed dying, Heydrich was signing his name to scores of execution warrants against suspected plotters. Score one for the assassins.
Score like a milloin for heydrich as assassins actions caused the destruction of lidlice. The town and majority of its people were killed because of their actions.
@@johannessimola1615 Not the assassins actions, Nazi Actions.
And important to note, Nazi brutality served to turn freindly nations, who welcomed the liberation from Communism - against them. This is exactly why the Brits wanted this operation, and the SS played to their hands.
@@reuvenpolonskiy2544 For starters. National sosialismn((nazi) was a right wing ideology. Like further from USSR than anything else).
Assansins actions is only correc way to call it.Gavrilo Princip killed the family of crown prince of austro-hungary and because was underaged in the constutian was spared from death later killed. Killed himself of life lost in ww1. Its not hitler, comnunist or nazis why the people died its because of the actions of the assasins.
Lastly hitler was morally better than all USSR leader combined. From love From finland.
@@reuvenpolonskiy2544 the communists got them in the end.
@@johannessimola1615 I've heard a convincing arguement (from non neo nazis) that national socialism is actually socialism. But instead of the working classes holding the means of production it is a race that controls the means of production. Basically a branch of marxist socialism in the same way leninist and trotsky were developments upon marx's ideas.
We should all have the courage to do this!
But there's one cardinal rule - always check your weapons first!
My great-grandmother knew Josef Valčík, i, m really proud of that, she worked with him before the war started and he escaped to the Britain and she recognized him after the atentat
absolutely
@@TheWesternunionman Thats true, i dont lie, he lived in Smolina and it is near and almost all his family was after Anthropoid killed, only 2 small siblings survived i think, but that is true, if you want, i can speak with you, that story told to me my father with my grandmother
@@martinvanek7172 sound like a good bloke (it's a complement)
@@TheWesternunionman He was very patriotic and he was good, but after Anthropoid nazis burned lots of villages, even 2 near his village and lots of people was killed after Anthropoid, but it was succesful mission
A superb film.Deserved an Oscar or two at least!
Heydrich didn’t actually die until about a week after the attack, it’s thought from sepsis caused by horse hair from the inside of the car seat making its way into one of his wounds. The wounds themselves weren’t all that serious, and if not for the sepsis Heydrich would probably have survived
I read about this events when I was 12 years old. It was the first time I heard the word septicemia.
For those who talk about the awful cost of the German retaliation after the assassination and question whether it was worth it. Sadly millions of people died as a result of this war created by Germany. At that time Czechoslovakia had become rather too complacent about the German occupation churning out high grade weaponry and armaments in their factories for the Axis war machine. The assassination and atrocities that followed severely disrupted all that and gave the Czechs and Slovaks an everlasting pride that some of their compatriots were prepared to give their lives in defence of their homeland against the brutal German occupiers.
Sadly the allies betrayed Czechoslovakia before the war and after it too, where were the allies when we needed them most?, and where were they in 1938, 1948 and 1968-NOWHERE, because they didn't care for Czechoslovakia a one bit...for us the occupation started already in 1938/9, and the allies were in that time doing their policy of appeasemeant=it wasn't even a policy rather a term to hide that they were scared and cowards...
krystal cz Sadly much of what you say is true. Small countries in Europe became mere pawns in the Giants game of chess of WW 11 and its aftermath. But in defence of my own country Great Britain we stood alone against the might of Nazi Germany until Germany turned on their erstwhile allies Russia and USA entered the war. Now peace and democracy reigns in Europe helped brought about by the actions and sacrifice of countless heroes like Josef Gobcik and Jan Kubis.
@@krystalcz9251 1938 byla regulérní zrada. 1968 je diskutabilní co vlastně mohl kdo udělat (hrozba jaderné války taky hraje roli) ? 1948 nesouhlasím chránit před kým ? Před Českou vládou která měla v roce 1948 ať se nám to líbí nebo ne podporu spousty ba dokonce většiny Čechů ?
I got to fire some hundred rounds with a MK III recently. Most often it didn't discharge at all, just like in the film. The most I got out of it was a 6-8 round burst followed by a feed failure. The MP40 on the other hand was reduced to a single shot muzzle loader since our only magazine broke down.
The only ones I feel sorry for were the innocent ones caught up in that and those that suffered in the aftermath of it
Hombres valientes y decididos, unos verdaderos heroes, paz en sus tumbas🙏🌷❤
Rest in peace 🙏
I think it was incredible that Heydrich didn't have more security around him.
Great video! Thank you.
He started believing too much in his own invincibility.
The Czech resistance was very passive at the time. The Allies (and exile government) didn’t want to kill heydrich so much as to get the Germans to retaliate and by that get more Czech resistance. A cynical plan that somewhat worked but costed many Czech lives and ultimately not changed the fate of the Czech at all
@@bingobongo1615 If Heydrich had not been assassinated, he would have slaughtered a lot more people. Also a lot more Czech people would have been killed. He was a total psycho, he even was one of the creators of the systematic mass killings. So the death of this person definitely did change the fate of the Czech. Those two villages that got wiped out afterwards were a "minor" price in comparison to what he would have done in the Protectorate by the end of the war.
And it did, in fact, change the Czech fate at the international level. Only after this attack, the Munich treaty was officially disapproved by other countries. If it were not for this assassination, they would most likely still recognize the treaty as official. The country of Czechoslovakia that was renewed after the war might have looked differently if it were not for this assassination. It would be a lot harder to gain international recognition. Foreign leaders basically started taking the Czech a lot more seriously after this.
@@mth469 Read about his driver during this event, that man was a dedicated man who didnt care about dying. You rather a man like that then more bodyguards who you dont know would react in that scenario.
Less security compared to modern day leaders like Vladimir Putin and Kim jong Un
Matthew Settle played Ronald Speirs in 'Band Of Brothers'. Interesting to see him play one of Heydrich's assassins here.
Filmaço,suspense e adrenalina do princípio ao fim. 👏👏👏👏👍
Very brave young men, RIP.
Heydrich actually died from blood poisoning, this was attributed to the horse hair stuffing as used in the Mercedes upholstery contaminating his wounds. If the SOE assassins had used an MP40 instead of sten then things would have been so different.
Wow
Don't think you can hide an MP40 under a trench coat. The Sten had the compact size to be hidden.
Constantine Joseph the sten is undeniably terrible though
@@iain3713 it was the only option. When she was working, she made a proper sub machine gun never the less.
@@ConstantineJoseph The Sten was indeed easier to take apart and then re-assemble. It was better suited to this kind of underground warfare, but it won no laurels in Anthropoid.
Reinhard Heydrich was really scary ... good for the world that he was put down !!!
Amazing piece of WWII history reancted perfectly!
Visited the actual church were they took refuge, bullet holes still on outside of building.
Fantastic city to visit, this was an awesome story and the reprisals were brutal, really moving and it wasn’t till I visited that I realised how much the Germans were despised.
This video was more realistic than the video in operation day Break. The seen was much well depicted here.
I actually visited the place where this took place. It no longer exists since the road was reshaped but you still get a good impression how it must have been
i had no idea oppenheimer killed heydrich
The stuffing from the seat caused an infection. Probably died of septice.
Hence he had a chance to taste his own medicine ...
yes, it was stuffed with horse tails hairs and similar stuff. Or prisoners hair, who knows? Best vengeance for them....
a planned raid far more nerve recking than a clash with the enemy in the front. very well acted and shows if you are not a pro things go down.
They were trained and taught at Arisaig House in Scotland..
Very good congratulations for the video🇩🇪🇹🇳.
I like this epsiode/story. There was also a similar action in Poland where there was a liquidation of Franz Kutschera conducted.
There were more such actions in Poland. One of the many organized actions was The Action Heads.
The destroyed Lidice in the Czech Republic cannot be compared to hundreds of burned villages in Poland. The Germans murdered 20 percent of the population.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Heads
@@scandik100 Thanks for the info. However the "Kutschera action" is my favorite undertaking of our Polsh underground. Here I share some interesting vid with reconstruction of the action. Unfortunately there is no english subtitles thus not everybody will understand ruclips.net/video/ccdylhhkX7Q/видео.html
We don't really hear much about the Polish resistance (in England, anyway). It seems to get lost in mix of more famous chapters of the war. I'll certainly look into it, though. That being said, we are more aware of the valuable contribution made by our Polish friends to the RAF, Battle of Britain etc. Thanks.
@@goodyeoman4534 Np. That video mentioned above is very interesting. There is an interview with the actual conspiracy member pseud. Dewajtis that has participated in this action. This action was undertaken on the basis of the order of General Emil Filedorf - Nil. He was after the end of WW II arrested and then killed in the prison by the communists . Best Regards
@@Darro2017 Thank you, I will watch it.
Damn, Cilian Murphy really developed the atomic bomb while also assassinating Heydrich, respect
I saw the first film in 1975 entitled Operation Daybreak, which starred Timothy Bottoms.
Watch "Atentát" (1964). Best movie
I watched Operation Daybreak at the cinema as a child. It is the first film I remember finding the non-Hollywood ending so difficult to reconcile.
It didnt hit the wrong man
And these guys were brave ones
Holy fucking shit, it appears that Thomas Shelby is actually Czech, and in the prague uprising he helped with the assasination of Reinhard Heydrich
Where can I rent/ purchase the original movie which stars Timothy Bottoms( Operation Daybreak)? Thanks.
If anyone find themselves in Prague there’s a wonderful exhibition in the National Museum about the resistance which I’d highly recommend.
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