The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague, 1942
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2019
- Newly appointed Acting Reichprotektor Reinhard Heydrich was Hitler's second right-hand man immediately became the "Butcher of Prague" as a result of genocide, extracting Czechs for labour camps and a principal architect for The Final Solution. The white flagstones in my video represent where the car was stopped. The hole in the wall is where the trapped paratroopers desperately tried to bore in to what they mistakenly thought was a sewer. Excellent documentaries are available on RUclips. At least three DVDs are available: Operation Daybreak (1975), Anthropoid (2016) and The Butcher of Prague 2017. I prefer the 1975 version that starred Anton Diffring as Heydrich. Anton often played German officers. I mistakenly confected another name. The exteriors were shot in Prague; often in the exact places in relation to the events. The film companies reconstructed the church and the crypt in the national film studios. Filming inside the church was a relief from the excessive traffic.
I visited the church crypt in 2018 and found it very moving. There is a real aura of respect and reverence in the church for the souls of those Czech paratroopers, and the museum lay out is terrific. It's a very important piece of WWII history and I'm very glad I got to see it and pay my respects to the bravery of those men who gave their lives for a free Czech Republic.
And here's me thinking it ended up a Soviet satellite state. When all the time it was 'free'.
@@292Nigel They gave their lives for it, even if they unfortunately didn't get it as you so helpfully pointed out
@@gerardjames9971 They should have not bothered killing Heydrich thus saving thousands of innocent lives. The truth is that they made the situation worse. The entire thing is shrowded with strong emotional feelings thus preventing any balanced view. I've read many comments where people have gloated in the manner of his death. Can you imagine the outrage if our enemies were to say such things about our dying and wounded?? I notice that the 1 million reich marks reward money the Germans paid, never gets mentioned. I suspect the money paid is of accute embarrassment to those involved with operation anthropoid. Too much emotion and not enough objectivity on this topic for my taste.
@@292Nigel It's quite easy, 80 years later, to say they shouldn't have assassinated Heydrich because of inevitable Nazi reprisals. Heydrich was a monster, a Nazi fanatic who carried out dozens of mass executions to terrify the population and the regime was so oppressive that he was called the butcher of Prague. Heydrich also played a huge role in organising the Holocaust at Wannsee. I wouldn't blame any Czech person gloating at his death, and my original comment was to praise the lovely museum dedicated to the Czech paratroopers. If you don't agree, why bother replying? Don't bother responding to this one, I won't read it as at best you're a troll and and worst, a vile neo-Nazi. Either way I'm not interested in your opinion, so fuck off.
@@gerardjames9971
Nice to have you 'out of the closet' with that last outburst Gerard. So what are you, Jewish? Red? Or perhaps both? Maybe you're a gay? As for calling me a troll nothing could be further from the truth. Then again if you are what i think you are the truth takes second place to your agenda.
All honor and glory to these Czech patriots.
For getting hundreds of their Czech compatriots killed?
@@jonnieinbangkok How could they know? They did this to stop Reinhard, not to kill civilians. So Shut up. My family know one of these patriots family back than. They were good people my grandmother said.
@@jonnieinbangkok How the hell are the reprisals their fault?
@@liamweaver2944 Because it was foreseeable.
@@jonnieinbangkok So by that logic, D-Day shouldn't have happened because thousands of French civilians could get killed, and the RAF shouldn't have bombed Germany because the Luftwaffe would drop twice as much ordinance on them. You can't blame someone for wanting to resist a totalitarian regime.
A coward dies a thousand deaths, a hero dies but once. Their memory is a blessing.
You have used a Mexican saying: El cobarde meure muchas muertes el valiente sola una.
Julius caesar quote
"Yes sir!"
@@AdityaPratapSingh10 from the play "Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare.
Due to the assassination attempt on Reinhard Heydrich, the citizens of the village of Lidice were subsequently with hundreds executed, who should also be honored.
@Buff 4A7 read David Irvings book Churchill. Or just the bibliography and the documents gained about and on Churchill. Art fraud, drunkard and agent for hire
Lidice memorial www.lidice-memorial.cz/en/
@@ozdavemcgee2079 Really? Read the book of a Holocaust denier who's one of the darlings of modern-day Nazis?
@@alexcarter8807 Correct. How easily people can be manipulated.
Buff 4A7 Try pulling your head out of your ass for once. Vote for tRump much?
As an Englishman, I am forever in debt to the courageous Czech people. Instances such as this, notwithstanding their other contributions with Resistance, the Battle of Britain, etc. demonstrate such tremendous bravery in the fight against fascism. May these Czech Heroes Rest In Peace. 🙏❤ Bratri ve zbrani 🇨🇿 ❤
The UK should have allied Hitler to end communism
@@BJJMTF Who'd want to have sided with Hitler? Just like Trump, the man was a #Loser. 😂
Poor slovaks everybody always forgets about them
They are heroes of mankind!
🤥
I watched Operation Daybreak as a teenager in the 1980s, when it was shown on British television. I was gripped by the film and moved even more when I found out it was a true story. In the early 1990s I went to the Czech Republic to teach English and visited St Cyril and Methodius. At the time, I remember that entry to the crypt was via the staircase that led down from the nave. As you say, a really spiritual experience. RIP all those brave men and women in the Czech army and resistance who bravely died fighting tyranny.
Gabcik was Slovak, Kubis was Czech......2 different nationalities now, although at the time they were Czechoslovak. A couple of legacies of Kubis and Gabcik: I lived on Kubisova Street in Prague for 3 years, just above the attack site. And here in Slovakia we have a small town called Gabcikova.
Gabcik was Boron to a Slovak father and Czech mother.
I have walked those streets many times. They look quite bad these days. Shame about that.
Were they communists?
God bless these two heros for dispatching a genocidal maniac.
I believe in the rosary during the "Illuminous Mysteries"--Jesus says: "Blessed are those who suffer for the sake of justice-their's is the kingdom of heaven"-the two Czech patriots and the citizens of Lidice are clearly in heaven
Amen
Thank you for posting this video and detailing the heroic actions of these brave men who gave their lives to rid the world of one of the most fanatical of Nazis. They succeeded at the cost of their lives and many others who were ordered murdered as revenge by Hitler and who had nothing to do with the assassination.
To think that these two boys were only 22 years old and planned and accomplished this, front to back, soup to nuts almost all by themselves. They knew their fate as soon as they parachuted into Czech territory. But that must have been the adventure if a lifetime and a terrifying thrill ride the entire time. God bless them and women and men like them
Thank you viewers for a quarter of a million views. I did not think views would ever exceed more than a thousand. Your comments refer to history, the annoying sound of traffic and my inability or ability to tell an unplanned story based upon memory.
There is a nice pub opposite the church when you can sit and drink a few pivo, watch the traffic go past, look at the entrance of this church and remember the brave. I also sit and remember the residents of Lidice who paid a terrible price. I have been to this church many times.
My granddad was originally on This mission. He broke his leg training for it at Dumfries. He came.to England with Josef Gabcik and Adolph Opalka. Said he could have held the team together. Got a few photos of them all. I've got a scrappy video that needs redoing but it's called Operation Anthropood Operace Anthropoid here on RUclips
Hope you don't mind three small corrections:
* Where you point to the place, where the ambush had happened - the site was extensively rebuilt post-war and the original street is no longer there.
* The Germans actually didn't want to kill the paratroopers in the church like you said. They were trying to capture them alive. That is why the gunfight took so long and why they went with flooding.
* During the gun batttle in the church the paratroopers only had pistols and just a very limited ammo for them. No sten guns or even machine guns like they have in the movies.
If you liked the movie Operation Daybreak fom the 70s, you may want to try an older movie Atentát from 1964
In the movie look like they want to just injured them, for interrogation
Thank you so much for the video. I read about it. It's so interesting to see the spots where those events happened.
Very brave to the end. Did what a lot of people did not have the guts to do
you can say that again. There were relatively few true German heroes: people who knew right from wrong and tried to bring down the rat bastard nazi's
@@RubyBandUSA I have a friend In Austria who said that the people welcomed them with open arms
@@292Nigel thank you for the information about how things are now a days
@@berthalloway9953 What A Shock. You Think Maybe That's Because Hitler Was An Austrian? Guess What Is The Official Language Of Austria?
@@RubyBandUSA - these resistance men were Czechs not Germans. The Czech govt was in exile in Britain during the German occupation of western Czechoslovakia. These guys trained in Britain.
I heard they had no penicillin for Heydrich which was a blessing.Hopefully, there was no morphine either.Rest the souls of the Czech heroes who rid the world of that satanic menace.Rest the souls of the many Czechs who were executed in retribution for Heydrichs killing.
he wasn't killed during the initial assassination attempt--the grenade shrapnel and pieces of the upholstery of the car caused extensive trunk wounds that got infected and led to sepsis
@@bufnyfan1 he does say that in the video
Penicillin wasn't fully developed by then. Sulfa was used a lot instead. I read it was the horse hair in the car upholstery that led to the infection.
@@RUclips.Algorithmic.Nonsense
Yes,he went into septic shock because of that.Penicillin,although invented in 1928,was not widely available,especially during the war.I hope they didn't have morphine either.
yeah there was no penicilin at that time so its not like they didn't have it for him. Nobody had it in germany.
The irony is that Heidrich didn'd die due to the bullets, but because an infection caused by a horse hair that hit him with a piece of metal during the attack.
He died a painful death. That’s Music to my ears.
Another reason to love horses.
Yes the Sten submachine gun jammed, and wouldn’t fire(which was common with some of them). He threw I believe , some type of smaller mine(like an anti tank mine ) that was big enough that it was carried in a suitcase . The entire suitcase was thrown at the Mercedes when the agent saw his partners Sten had jammed . The shrapnel from the explosion ripped into the side of the Mercedes , and into Hendrichs side ....
He deserved every second of him suffering! Maybe he was the only Nazi who ever had to pay an adequate price for his atrocities!
@@raoulduke2625 a Hawkins grenade.
Thank you for making this video. Operation Daybreak is one of the best war movies ever made.
Thank you. I agree.
@@michaelturner7949 You really think so? There are SO many inaccuracies in that movie...
A salute to the Czech paratroopers!
Czechoslovak
"Yes, madam!"
What about a salute to the Slovak paratrooper, Jozef Gabčík, who would have assassinated Heydrich single handed if his Sten gun hadn’t jammed (although the bomb would also have been thrown in the car as well).
Two Czech heroes!👍 During training in England it was thought to be suicide mission and the two men didn’t hesitate, they returned to their country knowing it was probably the end for them.
Bless them, so proud of their courage. LONG LIVE FREEDOM, EVERYWHERE.
so you think you have freedom, none are more hopelessly enslaved than those that think they are free wake up!
it's dead in the West.
@@justincase8113 Love it, but freedom watchers have to stay objective. We are much more free than these people were. What we have to ruthlessly root out, are the countless ways our rulers will look to subly _erode_ our freedoms. We need to be proportional and objective - and leave the hyperbole to the state organs like BBC that issue the propaganda that fools and enslaves us.
Oh yes, long live freedom until we're completely enslaved by our governments, then what????
@@grahambennett8151 nothing has changed the Empire still rules
I believe that although Heydrich's injuries were serious there was a chance of him pulling through but Hitler ordered that nothing had to done until his own personal physician arrived and that proved too late.
“A painful lingering death.” Music to my ears.
@@TheGeosto The good news is that Himmler only lived another 3 years before committing suicide, a coward's death.
Paul Lewis Himmler was murdered whilst in allied hands. You fought the wrong people you idiot
@@TheHighwayDreams you and the other bootlicker are the only idiots here, and Himmler absolutely did off his sissified self an was a complete and total coward.
@Johnston Steiner Himmler was a wanna be soldier and a girly girly man, total sissy and a coward and was a complete farce wearing medals he never earned, wearing the uniform without having one iota of training and never saw combat, and he committed suicide because he didn't have the sack to face justice like a man.
@Johnston Steiner You are a sad hateful person.
Operation Daybreak is one of my most favourite films. I've seen it so many times and never get tired watching it. The end of the film is so sad and the beautiful music makes it even sader. They were such brave men and their parts were played wonderfully by Anthony Andrew's and Timothy Bottoms. Many thanks for making this fantastic video.
Well done sir...Where do we find such brave men that are willing to sacrifice there tomorrow for our today. Rest in peace brave paratroopers fellow brothers in arms. Thank you from America.
No men like today, would make a sacrifice like that again. it would all be in vain today. This new generation today could care less about their freedom and more about having someone else do all their thinking for them. We have a generation of numb nut younger people out there, who would never fight for their freedom like people back then did. Today's generation is willing to throw their rights away just so that they don't hurt someone's feelings. It's sickening.
@@jenniferlarson6426 Agree Jennifer very sad state of affairs we are in and it doesn't matter what your home country is... be safe out there.
The material in the seat that poisoned him was horsehair. Thank you for showing the site today. Wow things sure change. Lots of traffic!
Thanks for your time and effort in the making of this video. God Bless you, sir!
Thank you very much.
I love the film Operation Day Break, watched it loads of times, as it’s one of my favourite WWII films. The musical score is so powerful, fits the films perfectly. I even visited Prague in 2010 to see the church, however I didn’t know you could go in. Finally, the actor who played Heydrich was actually Anton Differing… Great video 👍🏻
Great to see these brave men have been remembered so fondly in Czechoslovakia.
Thank you for posting!
The book "Seven Men at Daybreak " is one of complete accounts of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
Little did those brave men know at the time of their heroic acts. That books and movies would be written and made about their courge. I would love to go there and sit for a long time and let that energy sweep over me.
Enjoy your freedom while you have it. I hope you don't think today's generation would ever be able to secure freedom if it were taken away. Today's generation is frightening AND I see hitler repeating all over again in about 25 years and this generation is just too stupid to see it coming. So glad I'll be dead and buried by then.
A very interesting and knowledgeable account of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. Thank you.
Unfortunately it is loaded with inaccuracies.
Brave souls, RIP
Thank you for the video Michael. I visited the Church last month and felt very sad. Honor and respect, for those very brave young men.R.I.P.
TY. Very informative, yet entertaining. I learned something new today.
I remember the film and story of those brave young men very well and of course the name Lidice always comes to mind whenever l think about Czeckoslovakia !
Thanks so much - such an important story.
I never imagined this video would be viewed in such high numbers!
@@berenicegalilea if the world encounters another Hitler and his criminals, what do you mean "no more wars." ??? Can victims protect themselves with pacivity?
@@berenicegalilea I was travelling from Aus to UK, and I happened to be in Wenselas Sq in 1989 chanting 'havel na hrad'. I'm very proud of my small part of your liberation. 30yrs later, 1 marriage and 5 children (Cz wife Aus kids) I am back in Cz with worse restrictions due to Babis than ever the Cz had under communism.
During the 1st Republic and the post WW2 years the Czs wanted to say they were part of the West. Other Slavs joke about the Cz that 'Cz are Slavs who want to be Germans'. I think you are Germans pretending to be Slavs. Jungman had it wrong.
I'm waiting for Czs to revolt against these covid lockdowns. I'll be there too on Wenselas Sq.
Thank you for doing this video. I never knew anything about this brave act until I saw this and then saw clips of Anthrapoid movie.
Do watch the film Operation Daybreak.
Nice video michael i came back from prague 2 weeks ago and did the anthropoid walking tour but unfortunately didnt have time to visit the actual spot of the assasination.thanks for showing exact location where it happened.i reccomend anyone going to prague to do the tour.it shows you how brave these people were .not just the parachutists but also the people that looked after them were
Thank you Scott.
The movies "Anthropoid", "Lidice", and "The Man with the Iron Heart" are fantastic renactments of the events surrounding the assassination of the Blond Beast.
I'm going to be contrary.
The reason the Brits wanted Heydrich out of the way is, of all the Nazi elite, he really was competent. Goering (WW1 fighter pilot on sedatives), Goebbels deformed and rejected for WW1, Himmler/Hitler - hardly part of the master race (as were any of them). Hitler played his inner circle off against each other, the Nazi elite were incompetent fools.
Heydrich was smart, brave, ruthless and had an animal cunning. If he had taken over from Hitler, the 3rd Reich would have been a lot harder to beat.
Kindly share it here Mr.Mkhize.TY much
Great video. Pure history. Thank you.
Thank You so much for the Tour , Info , an Tell .
Hard to imagine two braver men to accomplish this mission, knowing (rightly) that their chances of escape were zero.
There weren’t two men. There were many including families sheltering the troops in safe houses.
Chances of escape were actually very good and were it not for betrayal, it is likely they would have returned to SOE.
@@russharker932 Oh, I agree that it was a team effort.
I was just mentioning these two as particularly courageous.
Thanks to Operation Daybreak 1975 I know about the Heroes. Thanks to you Sir, I now know perfectly well! What an Incredible video/ documentary! ❤️
In the 1975 movie “Operation Daybreak”, Reinhardt Heydrich was not played by Alan Deering as stated here but by the well known German actor Anton Diffring.
Great video put over very professionally, many thanks.
Thank you very much.
Thank you sir for the post.
EXCELLENT EXCELLENT VIDEO And Job greatly done! God Bless you, and please bring more videos from this time, it’s interesting to watch especially all these years past, even the school books don’t teach us this. 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Michael, well done narration worthy of sharing to our youth, less we forget the evils of war.
This is absolutely brilliant Michael. Well done with the great footage and narration. One of my all time favourite films with such a chilling musical score. The story is incredible and to think that it was all true. Special mention to Ata and what he was subjected to also. Horrific
Thank you very much! One viewer stated the opposite opinion which I have left on display. I should have included R.H's residence from where he began his journey.
Great video! The action undertaken after the assignation is one of the most tragic stories
Well presented. Thank you.
There is a book written about these two incredibly brave, young men called
“The Bravest Of The Brave”.
Do a story on the sacrifice of the village of Lidice as a direct result of the assassination of Heydrich. All male adults were executed.
All for one man I think not
Omg didn't know that my God
@@helenheeney2284 Yes Google it...very sad
It's been done. A bloke in Stoke (England) made sure Lidice will never die.
@@helenheeney2284 watch The Man with the Iron Heart
These are true Czech Heroes "no one is more valiant than those that lay down their lives so that others may live". We salute these true heroic martyrs and freedom fighters that slayed the butcher of Prague and the architect of the Holocaust may they continue to be an inspiration to others their glory will live forever. Thank you very much and have a great day Fred Simcha Sarah Norman Family 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
Couldn't have happened to a nicer fellow...🤢
Nunya...youve got to be British with humour like that..lolol
Amen
I'm a certified Yank who lives in Texas, and I think it's hilarious!
@@Arwar555 Thank you sir, related..😏
I remember watching the movie "OPERATION DAYBREAK" as a young boy in India. I am fascinated by this subject!
Thanks for making this video
Thank you for posting this. Very interesting.
Thanks for posting this. What you say about the Czech lack of knowledge/interest in this key piece of history is born out by personal experience. In 2008 my brother & I went to Vienna & Prague. We visited the church where the firefight took place. We asked several people about the Heydrich shooting location but either didn't understand what we were talking about or know where the location was.
Many folk were unable to tell me how to reach the site of the assassination. Finding people with local knowledge worldwide is difficult.
@@michaelturner7949 From watching your article, it appears to look nothing like the location in period pictures with what looks like a major multi lane roadway nearby. I suppose that is what happens after 78 years & EU infrastructure funding.
A fitting memorial to brave men, supported by brave women and even some very brave children...... R.I.P
I have seen the film, well made. best wishes to the people of Prague from the UK.
Very interesting.
What are the rest of the pictures on the right on the bottom row of that board at 1:41 ?
What do they show?
The church and two dead paratroopers.
I’m very surprised you didn’t mention the aftermath of the assassination, how the Nazis punished the Czech people, to make an “example” of them, to discourage any other acts of reprisals through terror. More than 13,000 people were arrested, the relatives of Jan Kubiš, Josef Valčik, and their fellow patriots were murdered, including 294 people in Malthausen. One estimate is that 5,000 people were murdered in total, although Hitler wanted 10,000 killed. False intelligence linked the village of Lidice to the paratroopers, so the Germans committed the Lidice massacre: 199 men were murdered, 195 women were deported to a concentration camp, and-get this-95 children were taken prisoner. 81 of these children were later killed in gas vans at the Chełmo extermination camp, and 8 were adopted by German families. The Czech village of Ležáky was also destroyed bc a radio transmitter belonging to a resistance group was found there. The men and women of this village were all murdered, both villages were burned and the ruins of Lidice levelled. There are monuments to commemorate some of these outrageous reprisals, that of Lidice being the most poignant, bc the people living there were innocent!!
Hitler in frenzy demend destruction of Prague but some one make him think atherways
It was not the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, it was his execution.
And good work it was!
with all of his suffuring ,he still got off easy
I’m always fascinated to visit that historical place since i watched the movie, too many innocent civilians lost their lives as a grave consequence
I read a book about this when I was in 10th grade (1970) and was fascinated by this heroic event. It was almost a botched assassination attempt, but fortune would have it that Heydrich died later of septicemia or blood poisoning from the bomb fragments. The funeral of Reinhard Heydrich was a huge event in full Nazi regalia and then the reprisals started. It’s an amazing story of resistance to the brutality of totalitarian power. Thanks for the video. Long live Jan Kubis and Josef Gabcik.
Do you remember the name of the book?
richstex; It was so long ago - it was a book I got at the NY Public Library . Looking on line - it appears to be the Jan G. Wiener book - which was first published at around that time. I was fascinated with the story - it was a good book. I read a lot in those days.
'Great, informative video. 'Really appreciate the on-location aspect as it helped tremendously to envisage the invents which took place. I would add that the 2016 Anthropoid film depicting the event is a brilliant film, skillfully shot and respectfully faithful to the facts. 'Strongly recommend it to anyone hasn't seen it.
What a fantastic video! Great experience for those that haven’t the privilege of being there. Thanks for sharing. Thanks.
Thank you for the tour. I've always been fascinated by this operation. And the incredible men who executed it.
Thank you for posting this historical place. God willing I will visit this place one day.
Thanks for the tour!
Gracias por el video, ví la película cuando aún estudiaba en el colegio y me marco mucho sobre el valor, la camaradería, lealtad y heroísmo de un grupo de patriotas. Gracias por revivir la historia en el lugar de los hechos. Saludos desde Perú.
When you visit the crypt remember to sign the book there and pay homage to these truly brave men.
Great place
Mr. Turner, thank you for this history lesson. Very nice video. Congratulations
Gracias por su interes.
Very interesting video, most because you show how look the current place where the fact took place. Thank you Sir.
I appreciate it a lot
Thank you for your support.
@@michaelturner7949 Go ahead Michael. The way you tell the story is very sweet, because it's different to a documentary or a film. You do it in a simple manner. It makes it more interesting and very easy to understand.
Thak you
What a brutal regime these Nazi's were. The consequences for his assassination were enormous afterwards, but let's never forget the sacrifice and courage of these paratroopers. May they rest eternal peace. Thank you so much for this video.
They wanted a future for white people in Europe..........it looks hopeless now!
Funny but nobody ever discusses the atrocities committed by Stalin, who historians say he murdered far more than Hitler. Both madmen.
@@paulcrooks6008 By treating their own "white" people as v..ermin???
After the nazis hung Zoya ( the first woman to be awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union) .it was Rumoured Stalin sent out a order that all soldiers of the Wehrmacht division that part of her torture and execution ,were not to be taken prisoners.
That's hundreds of soldiers.
If you get the chance to see the film sabotage it's quite brutal in the story of this very brave young woman .
Very interesting sir!
Thanks for making this video.
I can tell you are moved by the making this pilgrimage to these sites.
I could feel your deep respect for the sacrifice these men made to make the world a better place.
They gave their last full measure of devotion.
Thank you very much. I collect the films as a reminder.
Very interesting video. Thanks a lot for sharing.
R I p those that lost their lives.so brave great video
Thank you for making this video. I have always wanted to see what the "Operation Daybreak" historical sites look like today. Living in the US it is difficult to visit European historical sites.
I should have visited Heydrich's residence from where he set out..
I have watched 'The Man with the Iron Heart' and 'Anthropoid'
and both are great depiction of the events and the courage these 7 parachutists had, especially 'Anthropoid'.
Even the last Church siege battle is well put.
Fact: the Parachutists held the church in a 6 hour long gun battle and German casualty was in between 20-30.
Apart from 1 who was killed from fatal wound, 6 committed suicide by gun shot. Brave men
Thank you Mike, enjoyed your video.
Went there 2 years ago, unfortunately on a Monday, when it was shut. Very interesting video. They we're all hero's, of that there is no doubt.
I remember the film by name “ Operation DayBreak”.
One of the best films I have ever watched...that's how I came to know of their story.
Yes, I thought that was the best ever version of the assassination.
Very good video and. I am planning to be in Prague this Christmas and I hope to see these places.Thank you...
Robert Kabatoff Good luck with that shit
@@bryantcurtis2665 I couldnt go that Christmas as Covid ruled. This December I hope to be there
Thanks for a great video.
Interesting video, and respectable homage to the brave men who died there. Thank you.
Thank you so much that was very interesting
great video informal but accurate, well done!
What an amazing video. Very humbling experience to watch.
One of the most important hand bombs thrown during WWII. A lingering, fitting end to the life of the butcher of Prague. God bless the two Heroes. Thanks to the presenter, Mr. Turner, for remembering such courage.
Unfortunately, Dr. Mengele, one of the greatest monsters of Nazism, (exterminator of Jews and experimenter on children) escaped to South America with the help of many sympathisers to live out a normal life.
Thank you Michael, this is an amazing production based on fact. I remember as a young boy watching the original film thinking we will remember these paratroopers bravery. They died hero’s. I have the same surname as yourself too.
Michael, thank you so much for creating and posting this video. I happen to have re-watched again the 1975 version of Operation Daybreak just last night which left me feeling once again that I really should go there and see where it really happened. Along comes RUclips with its algorithm the following morning and there is your video. Spooky stuff.
An incredible story for its heroism and betrayal.
Your video is a valuable part of reminding people what these men did, on all sides of the story. Thank you so much.
Thanks and appreciated, the explanation is fantastic.
Thank you for your support. I never expected nearly so many views.
Klein (Heinrich’s driver) was shot in the legs and survived the war.
According to this video he got shot in the chest twice and died.?
Maybe it wasn't that bad that the machinegun failed, - at least Heydrich got a slow death..
They may have had a better chance to escape if the machine gun had not failed. At least, they would have had that machine gun to protect themselves for while, maybe just long enough to get away.
Thanks for this video, very informative!
Too bloody right about that traffic. Actually just caught the 2016 Anthropoid film on one of the movie channels and sick of yt continually recommending the butcher's funeral for some reason. Only took my 1st vacation in over a decade last Sept along the Blue Danube from Romania to Hungary with local tourist guides and gutted by their families' war and occupation experiences we weren't taught in history class. Gratitude for sharing this since I may not be able to visit the rest of beautiful Eastern Europe as once planned.