WW2 Secret Operations: Killing the Reich-Protector
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- Uncover the thrilling story of Operation Anthropoid, a daring WW2 secret mission to assassinate the Reich-Protector. Dive into the covert world of espionage, resistance, and high-stakes action. Don't miss this incredible piece of history! 🔍🎖️🕵️
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Actually the submachine gun failed to fire Kubiš throw a grenade which injure Heydrich he later die in hospital but thanks for video from eatern Slovakia. Glory to these heroes!
Seeing the western world now, it wasn't that good that Germany lost.
@@hildebrandgotenland4823 or maybe that's only your point of wiev I m from eastern Slovakia and our Europe is still same I m sure that's mistake that was made in your society
@@jurajxman3499 Wasnt Slovakia allied with us?
@@hildebrandgotenland4823 was but it was slovak fascist government and also we had uprising against the government and also not everybody who lives in Slovakia is ethnically Slovak like me and my ancestors
@@jurajxman3499 As far as I know, the Slovaks and even the Czechs did not suffer that much under German occupation. At least I know of no bigger incident in Slovakia, so I wonder what exactly you refer to? The Slovaks might have even benefited from it.
As everyone is saying, the machine gun failed, but they threw a grenade and the shrapnel injured Heydrich and he died later in a hospital due to the injuries. They were pursued and hid in a church where they tried to resist the nazi soldiers to their last bullets. To this day there are still bullet holes on the church since the nazis shot a machine gun from a window from a building across the street, I've been to the church. I believe they then commited suicide by poisoning themselves with cyanide so the nazis couldn't get information out of them. I respect the heroic acts of the resistance movements in the nazi occupied countries. They all did this for a better future for everyone, even though they knew they were risking their own lives every single day. Their sacrifices were not in vain. I salute them with utmost respect
Actually, the shrapnel from the grenade penetrated the seat of Heydrichs Mercedes upholstery, that was filled with horse hair. It was that hair that infected Heydrich's evil body, and ultimately killed him.
Correction:
1. Kubis' STEN was jammed, so they threw a grenade and that wounded Heydrich, not the SMG
2. Karel Curda, a collaborator gave the location of Kubis and Gabcik to the Gestapo. They hid in the st. cyril and methodius cathedral in Prague. The SS raid at the cathedral, and after a gunfight, Kubis and Gabcik commited suicide
Several other commandos were trapped and killed in the church. They were arguably the most significant assassination teams in ww2. Heydrich was a major player in nazi military/govt.
They killed half batalion ss at the church
@@cesarriman11422 people killed 500 soliders? Wheres the story because if its true thats bad ass
@@lambchop6210lmao It doesn't exist because it never happened. Just another minion creating their own stories
Heydrich was attacked with a sten gun, from the front, which jammed. Heydrich stood up from the backseat, to shoot the man in front, with his officer's pistol. Heydrich was never hit by gun.
The other agent was back up, and came from behind Heydrich, with a grenade, which actually did not land in the rear seat, but blew up on the outside of the rear door, next to Heydrich. Heydrich was hit by bits of car and grenade.
Heydrich had had a policy that all Nazi VIPs had to ride in bullet proof heavy vehicles, with escorts.
But Heydrich drove in an open, unarmoured car, without escort, as he wanted all Czechs to know he had no fear of them.
That was the clear way to attack and it was set up on a hairpin turn, where car had to slow to near walking pace. When the 2 agents ran, they initially thought the attack was unsuccessful
Only in the days following with certain announcements, did they know he was injured.
Heydrich had refused to allow Czech doctors to treat him, they had to find a German medical professor to treat him. Heydrich refused to answer any questions of the anaesthetist. His arrogance unbelievable.
Himmler sent his personal doctor to oversee Heydrich's treatment and he approved all that had been done. Heydrich's wife, Lina, visited. Heydrich was cool, thinking clearly and approving appalling revenge attacks. He appeared to be repairing well, but days later, he suddenly got a high temperature, and sank into a coma, and swiftly died.
The Lidice revenge massacre was based on the maddest coincidences.
At the time, nobody German had a clue who attacked or where they were hiding.
A young man was wanting to dump his current girlfriend, so he sent a letter to her at her work, in a factory, IMPLYING he had to go into hiding because of a major act against the Germans. So she would be impressed and wouldn't give him a hard time.
She was off work, sick, and her overseer opened the letter and gave it to the local Germans. They arrested her and interrogated her, and demanded to know everything she knew.
One of the random things she knew, was that 2 young Czech men had left Lidice to go to England to fight for the Allies. They knew that 2 men had attacked Heydrich, so they had the names of 2 Czech lads from Lidice, and believed they had been sent back to assassinate Heydrich.
In fact, those 2 Czech lads had joined the RAF, and were flying RAF planes, I think fighters, in England, with no idea what was happening.
The chap that took over from Heydrich, (name forgotten), was instructed to slaughter EVERY man in Lidice and all the women and children shipped off to Ravensbruck, and Chelmno extermination camp, from Lidice, and Hitler wanted Lidice to be totally eradicated. No building remains existing. No roads. All old maps showing Lidice were to be handed in and destroyed, new maps were made totally wiping out anything that showed anything to indicate Lidice.
Even the cemetery was flattened, the skeletons dug up and trashed and dumped elsewhere.
Some very young blonde children and babies looking German were sent from Lidice to Germany, to be raised by childless Germans. Those children not knowing their real stories.
When the 2 assassins were betrayed, other men were unfortunately hidden with them. All knew they would be tortured terribly, before being killed, so all of them decided not to surrender. At one point, the crypt where a number were refusing to surrender was filled with water, from fire trucks, to try to get the men out alive, for torture and public execution.
Earlier, when the revenge killings began, the 2 assassins of Heydrich were appalled at the number of Czechs being killed, and suggested they put signs around their necks, saying they were the assassins, and walk out on the streets, in the hope of stopping innocent deaths, but were told not to. They were honourable, lovely young men.
Hitler had the total destruction of Lidice filmed and it was shown in other occupied countries to show what would happen if any other Resistance tried the same thing.
In reaction, knowing what had happened, many different countries named streets, suburbs after Lidice. Daughters were named Lidice, and a very moving link was forged by a town of miners in UK, with the town of Lidice, which had had a mining population.
Sir Barnett Stross a labour politician of Stoke on Trent, with links with the miners of North Staffordshire met, and those miners agreed to donate 1 day's pay per week, to a fund to rebuild Lidice. At the time, they had no idea how long the war would last OR if England would win, from September 1942!
Lidice was rebuilt, postwar, 300 metres from the original Lidice, reached through a rose garden, from the new village, the original area remains a memorial of the war crime, today.
Actually Heydrich lived several days after the attempt, he later died from infection from the fibers of the seats in his car.
That's right. Turns out, the leather seats were stuffed with horsehair which contained spores believed to have caused the sepsis which killed Heydrich. Kubis tried to throw the grenade into the car, but it fell short. Those spores were what did it. The assassination wouldn't have been successful otherwise.
@@thudor1 Did you and Bob Browning conduct the autopsy? Where are you getting your information? I have just read for years that one of the patriots threw a grenade which caused wounds to which Heydrich succumbed in June. I hope that the b*stard suffered greatly before he died. I add that I have never read that the grenade fell short.
@@thudor1Yes he died in absolute agony, whenever he was conscious....it unsettled Hitler very much and made him even more security aware
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
@@Mark-vq5dz, and just over two years later, the biggest threat came from German officers and his paranoia grew.
YOU FORGOT THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THIS STORY. THOSE TWO MEN DID KILL THEIR TARGET.
Yes, it was mission accomplished.
I learn more in CZcams then in School History class 😂😂😂
I recommend you guys watch "Anthropoid" (2016). Another gem for Cillian Murphy and the rest of the cast. One of the most underrated war movies out there
We went to the church where the final shoot out took place .They were trained in Scotland at the commando base in Achnacarry .
I went there too, there's bullet holes in the wall since they shot a machine gun from a building across the street.
@@Jaycobb07 Yip your right .Looked at it too.The Nazis took terrible revenge on innocent civilians .Nasty .The hierarchy in the Nazi camp must have had disturbed sleep though .Not knowing if they would be next.
He was arguably the most evil of all the Nazis
they were ALL....ass-----
How’s so?
@@wunderwaffe7998He just doesn't care to him it's just a job
Whoever came up with the death camps idea is the most evil.
Amon goeth, Adolf hitler, Himmler....
Moral of the story: It's not how hard you trained for but it's how RELIABLE weapons are for the mission.
Back when Men were MEN
You should listen to some of the recent war history... men going into hxxl to rescue their wounded teammates. There are still some men's men, thank GOD.
I could mention a few sorry vums who think they are the other gender, but this story is about brave men making bold moves to remove oppressors and set their country free. These MEN, I respect.🤩😍
Hrmm.. no gay people in the 40s right?
Well I'm a man and just because I hate getting dirty, wear short skirts with heels and sip cappuccino doesn't mean I couldn't go to war. As long as there's amenities I could go to war.
Why Lidice? Any reason that village was targeted ? Were they from Lidice or that village was used as a hiding place ? Radio station probably been tracked down and trail led to the village
I can't remember, but it was either a misunderstanding or it was sabotaged to look like the resistance had allies in Lidice
@@Jaycobb07 Could be anything but there is always the reason behind everything.Any action brings reaction ...My outmost sympathy for the victims of the war and totalitarian state violence ( what are we witnessing today in many cases as well)
Czecho was not enemy territory, it was their homeland occupied by german invaders/oppressors.
True
So the same they did after ww1 with German settled land?
@@hildebrandgotenland4823so true this doppelmoral.
maybe it wasn't enemy territory, but there were enemies, so I'd say that it was enemy territory back then
Enemy occupied territory. It was Czechoslovakia, but it wasn't a free country
Thank to them that beast was killed. They are real heroes.
Nah just rats
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Tell that to those killed in retaliation. I doubt they see them as heroes.
I've seen a movie about it when little but could never understand why that village has been targeted
if I remember correctly from history class, it was a misunderstanding or maybe it was sabotaged so it would look like the base of operations were Lidice. Maybe look it up on the internet
One of menney Reasons S.S. were not taken prisoner
Apart from the many thousands of SS who *were* taken prisoner you mean?
The town of Lidice in Panama 🇵🇦 was so named in commemoration of the described events.
Ironic that they wanted to stop murders but they caused more in retaliation. Some times its best to keep well enough alone especially if you want to kill a high ranking commander
That's the risk you took if you were an S.O.E agent special operations executive or as part of a resistance team.
Nope. Kill the bastard, then kill the next one they send too!
Got the bastard in the end so not a total loss.
They were aware of the risks of the mission,
And the chance that they were facing a one
Way mission. There was a very slight chance of them escaping and evading the
Dragnet after completing the mission.but when your homeland is under an evil occup
action, and you have a chance to kill the head of the SS, YOU TAKE IT!!!
Benjamin Franklin once said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Movie "operation daybreak"
Interesting that the video makes no mention of the grenade thrown by one of the two patriots and that Heydrich died of his wounds days later in June. Perhaps the author would care to explain why Heydrich's death due to the attack was not in the video, front and center?
Which begs the question.....why just Heidrich?
I don't remember, but my guess is that maybe he was the only one available for assasination
heydrich was the most accessible at that time.
*Spoiler Alert
Nazi's loose the War.
"lose"...
The main reason Heydrich was assassinated was the fact that he had the Czechs working well producing military goods for the Germans and earning good money. The locals were not happy he died!!
Heydrich was to trusting. He thought the Chechs loved him. So he downplayed security.
He was,heinrich rheinhard,the creator of the final solution at Wansee summit outside of Berlin
What? It's Reinhard Heydrich, not "heinrich reinhard".
This is movie material, not all movies need a good ending. Real heroes are all dead...
The reason it took place there was the hill and hairpin, as I said he thought he was invincible, the Nazis were doing OK in 42.
Heydrich looks like boomhawer on king of the hill.
He died from septicaemia, that set in as a result from what was splintered by a grenade. They say it could also been from the horses hair, that formed the cushioning of the seats in the rolls royce, that were shattered and imbedded into his wounds also. He came to, was coherent, eating etc, but the blood infection set it badly. Six days later, it took his life. Hitler expressed his disapproval of any of his high ranking nazi heiracy being chauffered or travelling in and open vehicle. Reinhardt assumed no one dared to take him out, as he ran chez with such ferociousness that people were too fearful of the reprisals. Goes to show that people will risk everything to rise up against pure evil.
brilliant movie was done on this
yes, great movie! But let's not take away from these two fearless Russian soldiers.
@@SuperDaleski1 - They weren’t Russian.
@@SuperDaleski1 they were czechs
Yes I think it was called Hitler Henchman and John Carradine played the Nazi leader
Yes, we all saw that movie!
Idk if anyone mentioned it but there is a cool urban legend about Heydrich. It is said that when he arrived in occupied Czechoslovakia he visited the Karlštejn castle near Prague. In this castle there are Czech Crown Jewels, which include the Saint Vitus crown.
According to the legend, anyone who places this ancient crown upon their head and isn’t worthy to rule over Czech people shall die within a year. Some people who were there when Heydrich was brought before these jewels said that he allegedly put the crown briefly on his head.
He supposedly did this almost exactly a year before his assassination.
There are no proofs of it actually happening, however it is a cool fun facf.
The sten (gun) jammed and a grenade was tossed, and Heydrich was badly injured. He died the following June 4th of his injuries, probably because of sepsis.
You guys are going to lose it when you hear about a Russian interior decorator who killed 15 Czechoslovakians
My favorite Soprano episode
Not quite true. Reinhard Heydrich was not shot dead. He was mortally injured by frwgments embedded in him from a modified anti tank. grenade.
To possibly answer the question why just Hienrich:Hitler was considered too much of an asset to the Allies.
That Czechoslovakian was an interior decorator, even though his apartment looked like shit...😂
Unfortunately the reprisels against citizens was brutal ,,,,
It was that way in France too. The nazis were after the Marquee, they were vicious attacking a woman, nine months pregnant with a pitchfork in front of her screaming child.
Women and children being locked in a church and it set ablaze and the men were hanged!
It was war and the nazis didn't care who they hurt.🤨😡😡😡
It might have been helpful if you mentioned Heydrich died from his wounds, the mission was successful although at great cost and bravery.
There is a movie about that assassination what was the name?
He was a Evil SOB and got what he deserved
The Flame and Citro , 2008 mivie . A great movie telling of this story
*rolls a 1*
*party dies along with thousands*
Heydrich did not die from his wounds, but from infection caused by the horse hair from the upholstery that was forced into his wounds by the grenade.
It would be nice if they checked out how to correctly pronounce the name of the village that was entirely destroyed.
Seriously you make a Heydrich where blood flows out of his mouth? Do you have any niveau?
They didn’t shoot him….the sten jammed….they threw a grenade
You have to question why didn't one of them just been a sniper and the other be a decoy because if they did that they both would've made it out of there
I salute our heroes. I am very proud of them. RIP. GOD bless them.
Was the man in the high castle inspired by this?
I belive they were sent by himmler who was scared how poweful hydrich is becoming.
The price they paid for that one life was not worth it .
This "Audacious" mission cost the lives of 1000's... and nothing but make the Nazis more blood thirsty. I would call this a huge F.. Up.
You have to read the amazing book called Hh. All about this brave pair. 💂♂️🇬🇧
Lemme see if I got this right: they kill Heydrich to stop the murder of Czech civilians but the Nazis kill thousands of civilians as pay-back for Heydrich’s killing. Seems like the law of Un-intended consequences came into play here.
If hydrich does it would have been nice. God bless those innocent people who died for no reason.
Operation day break.
Im willing to bet the gun didn't jam at all ,they just added that in the movie for hype...
I have heard that they were based in Leamington Spa in the free Mason Hall before they left
They were very brave
They should have just waited until dark where he sleeps and then pop him
No kedo impune su muerte
This was a idiotic mission. The allies knew what the respons would be, they effectively traded one life for thousands
Was it worth it? Did his death stop the killing or just cause more?
I read thst Kubis - cornered in a church - took cyanide before the nazis could kill him.
Was it worth it?
No.
One nazi offical or 1000 people and a village
Yes. Czechoslovacks exile government gain some trust and power in eyes of allies. Also Gabčík and Kubiš assassinated the most ranked nazi, wich died, during ww2.
But the outcome was really bloody.
Cost benefit analysis? Says probably not.
@@WALTERBROADDUS Do you understand who he was? He murdered FAR, FAR more than the residents of one village - his death was necessary.
First of all the to soldiers where polish not checkoslovakian and second the stengun they where using jammed so one of them had to throw a grenade Heydrich was not to badly wounded but later died because he got a sepsis from the shrapnell
Martyrs heroes not forgotten
In a mission to destroy. The Nazi beast against humanity.
Jude Law look alike in the first segment…
Another monster bites the dust!
Heydrich died as a result of his wounds thankfully
Too bad he didn't have another grenade. Or a colt 45
It’s time to mass against joey
Whoever made this needs to do better research...
Hurá Pro Česko! PRAVDA VÍTĚZÍ
You need to check your historic facts as to what actually happens during the ambush -wasn’t a grenade thrown?
He actually died from blood poisoning from the explosion put dirty contaminated pieces of cloth into his skin
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Thanks England
Nearly nothing correct. Heydrich did kick the bucket a little later. Antibiotics would have done it..but they were only available in the UK
You got it a bit wrong
Was it worth it? The Germans slaughtered thousands after this “failed” attempt (he didn’t actually die at the time!!) as retribution for his death!!
Good movie also
Wasn't worth as Nazi reprisals were brutal.
Bad/Faulty telling... And ignoring Heydrich died from complications his wounds is Sad...
Why, why him....
THUMBSDOWN for narrated video.
Video is stolen and narration is made up false story.
Sly rats nothing more.
Bohaterowie świata. Ich pomniki powinny stać przynajmniej w całej EUROPIE
Heros
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Everybody is being played from the two polish assassins to the German leader. This will keep repeating itself unless we halt the Tower of Babel/Khufu Matrix which runs a two-prong system of controlling the warriors' spirit in a four-quadrant control system of ascendancy/descendancy series of wars and then controlling the flow of goods and services from this point. The world wars were a descending Last Hurrah of the Sacred Masculine Non-Semite to the ascendancy three-of-four major series of ascendancy wars with the Sacred Feminine Semite. Our quadrant has produced a Broadbased Judeo-Christian Freedom Governing Document that prohibits this manipulation and that can replace this Tower/Matrix. I'm for the Allies and the Polish people because of the Democracy Index guage on this series of wars. The Allies were much higher. However, everyone has their head stuck in the Ongoing Life Abreviation to Life Abreviation instead of my new Ongoing Systematic Appraisal to Systematic Appraisal. Emotions run high, and I'm a bit hypocritical here. They probably are saying this for the Polish military upgrade in the current antics of the Sacred Feminine Non-Semite with the Russian portion in this quadrant as another form of authoritarianism. Sure, sacrifice some more Polish people instead of my American self. Let's take a look at the big picture and shut down this Tower/Matrix at its source. Even a medium-range guess by most people can pinpoint this European source country. Use my 200-plus region-and-zone system to weed out the conspirators. This has already happened near like this, but probably later on this week someone will ask, "I hear you paint nation-states in multicolors?" I've survived so far. I feel you. (superthunderbird).
It unfortunately achieved nothing but civilian deaths.
Why they not send a britans. Think about that.
Brits would have given themselves away with their accent and besides, the two assassins could blend in and were highly motivated.
Why? Because not an awful lot of British people spoke the language or had any local knowledge - do you not understand the concept of Special Operations & undercover?
Like Louis Armstrong and Nelson Mandela
Another “brilliant” British idea.
Suicide mission!!!!
Way to go you two goofs
Was the outcome, worth the retaliation from the SS, and all the civilian people being murdered?
The goal of the assination was to provoke the retaliation. Hedrych was succeeding to well with his carrot and stick approach in quelling Czechoslovak resistance. Brits never at loss for a spot of end-justifies-the-means reasoning.
Ian
Since when were the SS concerned about who they hurt? They were vicious and killers! They wanted blood!
@@kovesp1 Absolute BS.
@memkiii No need to berate yourself like that for being ignorant. You could read some reputable historians. It is well documented that the in-country resistance leaders (e.g., Mastný) begged Beneš and the Brits to call it off because "an attempt against Heydrich's life... would be of no use to the Allies and its consequences for our people would be immeasurable". But to no avail. After the war Beneš denied any involvement.
As to British involvement... the SOE records are still sealed 81 years after the event. Why?
@@kovesp1 Thank you my friend, for your reply.
It’s pronounced obergrouper
I disagree it was a flop, the only reason he died is because he fought back, Hendrick was reckless and Hitler disliked this fact, it is what got him, not a super successful mission.
I think you will find that the results of a grenade causing a fatal infection were what killed him, not "because he fought back".
Damn krouts