The Secret Operation to Assassinate Reinhard Heydrich - Operation Anthropoid (1942)

Operation Anthropoid was a spectacular mission. It saw the successful assassination of the high-ranking Nazi, Chief of the Reich Main Security Office, and Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia, Reinhard Heydrich. Heydrich was also instrumental in the January 1942 Wannsee Conference. At this conference, the Nazis made their plans for the ‘final solution’ and the subsequent logistics to carry it out. Many historians consider Heydrich to be one of the ‘darkest figures of the Nazi regime.’ He was also the highest-ranking official to be successfully assassinated in a secret operation.

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:43 Czechoslovakia in World War II
2:16 Organising Anthropoid
4:24 Killing Heydrich
6:57 Mystery surrounding Heydrich's death
9:01 The Betrayal

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In October 1938, following the Munich Agreement, Nazi Germany incorporated the Czech Sudetenland. In March 1939, they incorporated the rest of the Czech lands, except for the first Slovak Republic’s puppet government. At any rate, most of the country was subdivided into the protectorate Bohemia and Moravia, overseen by Reichsprotektor Konstantin von Neurath.

Minutes of a January 1939 meeting with Heydrich’s subordinates survive. In it, the Reichsprotektor told them that: “The foreign policy of Germany demands that the Czechoslovak Republic be broken up and destroyed within the next few months. If necessary, by force.” This statement doesn’t leave much to the imagination in the way Heydrich dealt with the territory he would oversee two years later.

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Sources:

Dederichs, Mario D. Heydrich: the Face of Evil. Tallandier, 2016.
Jörgensen, C. (2014). Spying for the Führer: Hitler's Espionage Machine. Chartwell Books.
Terry, Keyana, and S. M. Waring. "Expanding historical Narratives: using SOURCES to assess the successes and failures of operation anthropoid." Social Studies Journal 37, no. 2 (2017): 59-71.

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