TIL about operation Anthropoid, the only successful WW2 government-backed operation against a high-ranking nazi
83 years ago today, seven brave Czechoslovakian resistance fighters died after successfully assassinating the man who was one of the principal architects of the Holocaust.
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A pyrrhic victory. 5000 dead, two villages razed. Damn.
Yeah the retaliation was brutal.
The movie was absolutely incredible. I highly recommend Anthropoid to everyone. It's not for the faint of heart.
I enjoy your enthusiasm but
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Haha, fair. What I mean is that I highly recommend it to anyone who could stomach such an intense topic!
For the more literally inclined: Laurent Binets HHhH (an acronym for 'Himmler's Horn heisst Heydrich' (Hitler's brain is named Heydrich))
it's been made into film as 'the man with the iron heart'.