You're really doing an amazing job with the content! It's a pleasure to watch your videos and thanks to being even family friendly, the kids can learn from them. Thanks for everything & stay safe!
I recall that they said that the car seat cushions were stuffed with horse hair, and that the grenade blast and fragments blasted bits of horse hair into his abdominal wounds, and he died of the resulting infection several days after the attack.
It would still be interesting to know if Himmler quietly actually had Heydrichs medical care hindered so he would, in fact , die. Heydrich was only 37 years old when he died and had arisen to the extremely powerful position he held in just a handful of years!. Only a few top Nazes like Himmler, Goering and Hitler had more power than he did.
As evil as Reinhard Heydrich was I can't help but begrudgingly admire his courage in battle even when he was fatally injured he still fought back I think the allied forces knew they had to come up with a plan to get rid of him because he was the real deal a fearless man who did not shy away from battle or confrontation If he was american or british he would be a national hero now, Don't get me wrong he was evil but you have to admit he was not a coward and was not afraid of battle or confrontation, I believe his death was the beginning of the end for nazi germany
I enjoy listening to you talk about all history,it was my favorite subject in school and I truly miss reading about it as I am now blind thanks to my mom blinding me for having blue eyes and her psychosis but as long as I can get my history fix with all of the good presenters like you I will be okay
Reinhard Heydrich was my great uncle, someone attempted to dig up his grave around 2019....they left in a hurry...we think due to nearby police presence, but they did manage to reach his vault. Nothing was stolen luckily.
Incredibly well researched and written. Thoroughly enjoy your enthusiastic presentation style. So much to absorb. I always seem to watch your videos at least twice to catch it all 😊
Reinhard Heydrich was one scary individual. His face just says *"I use torture"* . Glad he got wasted before he added a sh*tload more murders to that terrible war.
A cold-hearted man indeed. If you get the chance, the film Anthropoid I mention in the video is worth watching. It is incomprehensible the constant stress and tension the Czech resistance members went through from the moment they were dropped into Nazi-occupied territory all the way to them taking their lives in the Cathedral.
@@HoH Have you read the book "Hunting the Hangman" by Linskey? Is it accurate in its depiction of the events? ALAS, even though I have a copy, I haven't gotten round to read it yet.
@@Speedy636Germany In my opinion, a bit surprisingly, the Hollywood version was also worth watching. Fun fact: Tuntematon sotilas (Mini-Series 2018) includes a scene where Captain Lammio listens to a broadcast from Heydrich's funeral.
actually, it was jammed by a round, the new revelations from archive shows: zpravy.aktualne.cz/domaci/proc-parasutista-gabcik-nevystrelil-archiv-vydal-dukaz/r~5da2137a03a611e593f4002590604f2e/
I read that the sepsis was caused by horsehair and other content of the upholstery in the seats that was forced into his body by the blast of the grenade.
One claim for Heydrichs' Blood Infection was that Horse Hair from the Mercedes Car seats was blasted into Heydrichs wounds when the bomb exploded and the subsequent bacteria on the hair caused the infection.
The blood poison is called Sepsis! Without antibiotics, internal injuries create infection. That is what he died from! No antibiotics to fight infection.
This was the basis of a book that came out in the late 90's - As Time Goes By (Michael Walsh). Generally Casablanca, Part II. Rick, Sam & The Captain become part of the resistance. I enjoy your video's - Thanks.
Yes you are right. Still, Operation Vengeance is classified as a Military assassination and listed as the first assassination by the United States (defined as targeted killing by the U.S. themselves). If you have a chance and time to watch the video, the entire life of Yamamoto is fascinating in its own right. Have a good weekend!
@@HoH Yeah, I think that was the Americans self-congratulating themselves. Yamamoto was on a military aircraft, on a military mission and shot down in a military action by enemy aircraft. I agree: he was a prominent person who specifically targeted but it doesn't put him in the same class as someone like Yitzhak Rabin, for example. Heydrich was a clandestine operation by Czech operatives in an irregular operation which might have been supported by a military force but was acting largely on its own. Thanks for the video. It's good.
Excellent... Gold standard..... God bless all those brave brave brave paratroopers who stood up to the vile, brutal, thuggish & oppressive Nazi regime. Thank god everything has been preserved as tribute to these young hero's this is a story that needs to be told. God bless all those innocent civilians who where executed in retaliation.. RIP every single one of you, you will never ever be forgotten. Bless you all love from the UK. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Have you heard of Operation: Vengeance? It's about the Assassination of the Three Pashas, the perpetrators for the Armenian Genocide. It is a interesting topic that doesn't get a lot of attention anywhere.
Hey Sterling, I think that's Operation Nemesis. Very interesting indeed. I have created a video about Operation Vengeance, the secret mission by the American Navy to assassinate Japanese Admiral Yamamoto: th-cam.com/video/RrAtl22GACk/w-d-xo.html Let me know what you think!
Dot, I appreciated it, at least. On Facebook, there are a lot of punmaking groups. If you want to expose yourself to the awfulness of Facebook, you might have fun in some of those groups.
it'd be great if it had subtitles in other languages. It is a lot of information to follow and it gets a dash monotonous, so it would help to read along. Thanks so much, greetings from the other side od the globe!
Pictures of the actual STEN gun used show that the buttstock was not attached.Incomplete assembly, cocking handle in safety slot? Human error may have played a big part.
The bomb used was a Hawkins grenade. basically, a tin can filled with RDX explosive, capable of destroying an armoured car. The most commonly heard cause of Heidrich's death was that the horse hair used in the Mercedes seat filling penetrated his body together with shrapnel and caused a septicaemia... You refered Heidrich pulling his Luger, but in the movie we see him aiming with a P-38. Could easily have been either, and I guess we'll never know. After all, Goering was captured in 1945 with... a Smith & Wesson revolver!
Similar but less known is the Operation Heads during which in 1943-44 Polish Home Army carried out whole series of assassinations of Nazi officials guilty of crimes against Polish citizens. None of them was as high-ranked as Heydrich though. The highest ranked successfully assassinated target was the SS-Brigadefürer and Generalmajor of Polizei, SS and Police leader of the Warsaw District, Franz Kutschera.
@jiritichy7967 Yeah, Czech ancestry is very likely. He was from Lower Austria, and Wikipedia says that Kutschera is a Germanized version of a Czech surname Kučera. Speaking of Germans and German names of Slavic origin - everything east of the river Elbe used to be the territories of Slavic tribes. The Sorbs or Lusitians are their remnants surviving to this day. Names of many places in that part of Germany, including Leipzig and possibly Berlin itself, are of Slavic origin. It all makes the nazi believe in German racial superiority over Slavs even more ridiculous.
@292Nigel Sorry I somehow didn't notice your question until now. When someone else commented here. Long story short, the Soviet apparatus of state security and terror turned out to be better at fighting against the Polish underground than the German one. Also, during the double occupation of Poland, before June 1941, the scrutures of the Polish Underground State and Home Army were still organizing themselves. When they encountered the Soviets again in 1944, they were supposed to greet the "allies of our Allies" as representatives of the legal Polish authorities and cooperate with them if possible. It did not go well. There was armed resistance against the Soviets going on for several years after the war, but it was smaller in scale, much more decentralized, and crippled from the start. Also, they had to fight both Soviets and the Polish communist government, so it was a civil war against fellow Poles (at least in part).
There are two movies about the Heydrich's assassination, an earlier Czech one and a more recent English one. It is generally accepted that Heydrich died due to poisoning from the shrapnels contaminated by the car seat contents.
It’s so INTERESTING that he’s been dead for 80 years now .. I FIRST learned about SS-ObergruppenFuhrer Reinhard Heydrich about 25 years ago and I love the movies about him 1. Anthropoid 2. Conspiracy 3. Hitler’s SS (actor David Werner portraying Heydrich) 4. The Butcher of Prague. … NOW I need to watch 2017 “Killing Heydrich” .
I have 2 questions that have always puzzled me. Did not the Czech Govt. in Exile, as opposed to the British SOE , order the mission? Did the British SOE even know about the mission? I know people would comment that the RAF dropped them in, but the crew would know nothing about the operatives, or their missions. I really am not sure. Thanks for any help form anyone.
To my knowledge, some leading members of the Tsjech resistance asked Churchill not to proceed with the plot out of fear for the reprisals. He simply said "no"... Because reprisals would turn the people even more against the Germans. War logic...
Does anyone know if the assination was Hydrich's first experience in combat? Obviously he participated in torture and executions, and I would assume street violence, but was this the first time he experienced people shooting/bombing back?
He was a pilot/tailguner for The Luftwaffe earning an iron cross, a flight badge w/diamons and a wound badge after crashing without major injury but was grounded due to Himmler seeing him as "too valuable for combat".
Can you please do some work and videos on The battle of The Hurtgen Forrest of WWII? Why the Allies chose to even fight. And go about it the way they did. Thank you.
I'll have a look. In the meantime, I briefly mention the Battle of Hürtgen Forest in this video about the only U.S. deserter to be executed during the war: th-cam.com/video/UqO98PF4fkI/w-d-xo.html Perhaps you will find that story interesting as well.
Strange, although is strongly denied and erased from history, but he was at least on his father side Jewish. All his naval academy colleagues knew and admitted he was Jewish.
The informer who turned in the assasins was later protected by the Soviets who wanted to downplay the role of Britain in delivering Czechoslovakia from the Nazis and hype the role of the Soviet Union. Your story implies the traitor was punished when in fact he never was.
The autopsy found that he died from blood poising from the horse hair used as cushioning in his car seat being carried by bomb fragments that entered his body.
Brave men but did the cost of the operation outweigh its value. By 4/42 Heydrich was the man at the top of a well developed organisation that was capable of operating with or without him. Einzatsgruppen had been used in Poland in 1939 & were known to be active in Russia for the last 10 months. German authorities reaction to partisan activities in Yugoslavia & Greece were also well known. It would have been obvious how the German authorities would have avenged his death. The operation was a "Vanity Project" by the Czech Government in exile for which the people of Lezaky & Lidice paid dearly for.
The massacre of Lidice makes me question the value of Operation Anthropoid. Was it worth the lives of the villagers, who had nothing to do with the whole thing, over taking the life of Rein Heydrich who was a very horrible individual.
You can question it, but, considering that several other villages (like Javoricko in 1945) were massacred and erased in a similar way in no relation to this assination and for only vague connections with resistance, it seems the Nazis it would have happened anyway. Maybe resistance in general is of questionable morality, but we might as well ask if any defensive war at all is justifiable. Lidice is remembered more because if it happening shortly after the US entered the war and became a symbol in (true) American (yes, I include Brazil, Mexico -- most of the Americas -- in the latter) propaganda than its uniqueness in Czechoslovak history.
🤔 What took place at Lidice was the result of a misunderstanding of what a Czech suspect said under appalling interrogation by the SS. However, the assassination of Heydrich at the request of the Czechoslovak government in exile had to be done. He was the most dangerous high ranking SS Officer at that time, very intelligent and ambitious. His behaviour towards the Czechs and others demonstrated the depth of cruelty he imposed on a people unable to resist. Had RH replaced AH in Berlin I dread to consider what he would have done with ultimate power. He had to be eliminated, for the greater good of civilised society. Total war demands total response in order to bring it to an end.
'bodyguard of lies' book by anthony cave brown outs out 3 reasons to do in heydrich, 1his death would ignite fury against the reprisals that were sure to follow his killing , 2 show the reich they were vulnerable and defeatable,3. remove the most talented smartest guy , most modern, and most calculating guy in the reich Heyrdich was ambitious, and Brit secret service believed he would easily remove or kill hitler and get the reich leadership for himself,which they feared as in their view hitler being left where he is would guarantee germanys' defeat
Who cares? They were all trash. One of them sold them out to the Germans and picked up the reward money, which the Germans willingly paid. Yeah lovely people!!
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A great video Oscar! Heydrich was defiantly one of the most dangerous Germans in the Nazi organization. Efficient, calculating and ruthlessly successful. He had an interesting career start considering he wanted to serve in the German Navy and ended up in the secret police after a meeting with a high ranking Nazi official in the early years. I appreciated the information you shared on what happened to the clergy and civilians after the attact-details hardly mentioned in most accounts. I look foreward to watching more episodes in the future Oscar! Thanks again!😀
An interesting aside. Heydrich would have survived if the nazis had ever found out, that a factory in Denmark produced penicillin. They never found out and the Danes had absolutely no interest in supporting the Nazi war effort. Actually the standing order was to destroy the production line, should the occupiers ever find out, what was being produced.
It would be great to see an analysis of the days of AH as a beginning intelligence officer, immediately after WWII, seeking as he did to please military intelligence and simultaneously fulfill the revenge fantasies of his father figure, Ludendorff. Not much attention is paid to this period, yet it is so important. Ludendorff was there to receive AH after his discharge from his "country club" experience at Landsberg Prison, an extremely light sentence he received for the high crime of seeking the overthrow of the state. So much does not make sense here, in the official narrative.
When I was in Prague I made a point of visiting the church where these brave men lost their lives. In a city normally overwhelmed with tourists (pre pandemic) there were only a handful of people there. Not surprising in our world of self obsession these heroes who forfeited their lives to destroy tyranny are no doubt largely forgotten.
We all make choices in life. We can see the evil in others, and in this case it is obvious and extreme, but we can not quite catch the evil in ourselves, let alone do anything about it, without outside help! Prayer is the outside help we all need. This man step by step became more evil . Please put God first in your life and we can not only become the child he is proud of, but we can stop others like this animal of a man before he hurts the innocents of the world!
"infamy infamy, they've all got it in for me!" they didn't need to send a commando team, the Germans would have killed Heydrich if he'd gone to hospital with a paper cut.
And that's how we do it. And that's how it's done. Dismissed. (Keep your lame comments on our heroes to yourself. Kubiš and Gabčík got the best evaluation results from them all and were the most suitable for the mission in the country where the home resistance was intelligent, strong, well organized and unbreakable. To help the rest of the world to get rid of that cancerous, spoilt little brat called Heydrich who architected the final solution of the Jews /and mentally ill, handicapped, gypsies, gays, unfit, etc./ Mind you, they are as alive today as ever, neonazzies of the Europe and beyond. Muhaha) PS: what kind of innovative spirit, dedication, discipline, inner motivation, character, focus and coding abilities you gotta have to execute the plan and complete the mission in the face of that many struggles? Asked Gabčík and just smiled @Cemetery Ďáblice (The Devils) Keep deleting, sweater. AI is learning and watching you closely all.
In his book, "The Face of the Third Reich", Joachim Fest reveals that Heydrich had a secret: Jewish ancestors. It's thought that this was a motivating factor in his cruelty.
That's interesting because Hitler also had fears of Jewish blood due to his Schicklegruber family line. In fact, when he took over Austria he had a military base built over the family Cemetery with all the old Schicklegruber tombstones carried off. Didn't appreciate those family researcher's.
@@douglasturner6153 The Shickelgruber connection was only a maybe. It was the result of an alleged affir between his mother and a wealthy Jewish man she worked for (as I recall it). Adolf may have covered it up but it wasn't ever proven. The likelihood is that the alcoholic Alois was his father. Heydrich, on the other hand, had clear Jewish ancestry (according to Fest).
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I am glad you made a video on Operation Anthropoid. Its not often discussed.
Your presentation is outstanding.
Great channel, even well known stories are interesting to watch, you always manage to add insight.
Thank you Alter, much appreciated!
You're really doing an amazing job with the content! It's a pleasure to watch your videos and thanks to being even family friendly, the kids can learn from them. Thanks for everything & stay safe!
Shalom Alacheim.
I had read that Heydrich's wound was infected by fragments from the horse hide seat covering in his car. I guess we'll never know for sure.
Horse hide? That was it made from?
I recall that they said that the car seat cushions were stuffed with horse hair, and that the grenade blast and fragments blasted bits of horse hair into his abdominal wounds, and he died of the resulting infection several days after the attack.
@@johndilday1846 I think you're right, my memory is not what it used to be.
It would still be interesting to know if Himmler quietly actually had Heydrichs medical care hindered so he would, in fact , die. Heydrich was only 37 years old when he died and had arisen to the extremely powerful position he held in just a handful of years!. Only a few top Nazes like Himmler, Goering and Hitler had more power than he did.
@@balancedactguy I guess anything's possible, but they did not have antibiotics to combat infection.
Awesome information as always, thanks from Australia 🇦🇺
Thanks for watching!
My favourite history channel......great work!
Thanks!
As evil as Reinhard Heydrich was I can't help but begrudgingly admire his courage in battle even when he was fatally injured he still fought back
I think the allied forces knew they had to come up with a plan to get rid of him because he was the real deal a fearless man who did not shy away from battle or confrontation
If he was american or british he would be a national hero now,
Don't get me wrong he was evil but you have to admit he was not a coward and was not afraid of battle or confrontation,
I believe his death was the beginning of the end for nazi germany
EXCELLENT video! Thanks for sharing!
I enjoy listening to you talk about all history,it was my favorite subject in school and I truly miss reading about it as I am now blind thanks to my mom blinding me for having blue eyes and her psychosis but as long as I can get my history fix with all of the good presenters like you I will be okay
The UK made a movie version of this event called Operation Daybreak in 1975.
An excellent video as always....
Glad you found it interesting!
@@HoH your videos are always top quality.
An excellent and articulate presentation.
Thank you for a very informative video of a fascinating story (and for no background music).
Reinhard Heydrich was my great uncle, someone attempted to dig up his grave around 2019....they left in a hurry...we think due to nearby police presence, but they did manage to reach his vault. Nothing was stolen luckily.
Pi$% on the grave!!!
I always enjoy your presentation. Thank you for your work.
I appreciate that!
Remarkably well told video. Very de facto on a subject that can easily be passionate and one-eyed.
Incredibly well researched and written. Thoroughly enjoy your enthusiastic presentation style. So much to absorb. I always seem to watch your videos at least twice to catch it all 😊
Hi Mona, somehow I missed your comment in my feed. Thank you very much for the encouraging words, I am happy you enjoy my work!
I remember watching a movie about this. Great job !
I just watched the entire movie it was pretty great and sad at the same time.
Great channel and highly entertaining.
Much appreciated!
This op has more significance that you can possibly imagine.
For the citizens of Lidice...absolutely. You have to wonder if it was worth the price. But you really only judge that after the war had ended.
@@thethirdman225
Worth the price??
Sure it's worth the price, so long as it's not YOU paying it!!
Great video!I can reccomend the movie Anthropoid!It is a fantastic account of this !
Been watching awhile love the content and your voice is calming keep up the good work .. waiting to see if you run out of new sweaters
Reinhard Heydrich was one scary individual. His face just says *"I use torture"* . Glad he got wasted before he added a sh*tload more murders to that terrible war.
A cold-hearted man indeed. If you get the chance, the film Anthropoid I mention in the video is worth watching. It is incomprehensible the constant stress and tension the Czech resistance members went through from the moment they were dropped into Nazi-occupied territory all the way to them taking their lives in the Cathedral.
@@HoH Have you read the book "Hunting the Hangman" by Linskey? Is it accurate in its depiction of the events? ALAS, even though I have a copy, I haven't gotten round to read it yet.
@@Speedy636Germany In my opinion, a bit surprisingly, the Hollywood version was also worth watching.
Fun fact: Tuntematon sotilas (Mini-Series 2018) includes a scene where Captain Lammio listens to a broadcast from Heydrich's funeral.
@@HoH I'll check that out, thanks for the recommendation.
Reinhard certainly was that! He was also a caring and loving father and husband. Also a very good violin player. Scary how he was both!
The movie still shot shows Heydrich firing a Walther P38 not a Luger ...
I'd love to see a video about Operation Mincemeat.
Jammed by rabbit food, that's some bad luck.
actually, it was jammed by a round, the new revelations from archive shows: zpravy.aktualne.cz/domaci/proc-parasutista-gabcik-nevystrelil-archiv-vydal-dukaz/r~5da2137a03a611e593f4002590604f2e/
Same for me . I stopped the video and restarted . It came back perfectly .
He was not Welcome in my Country ,but I heard he made some good friends with ,my People . He loves Prague very much ,and Liberec
I read that the sepsis was caused by horsehair and other content of the upholstery in the seats that was forced into his body by the blast of the grenade.
One claim for Heydrichs' Blood Infection was that Horse Hair from the Mercedes Car seats was blasted into Heydrichs wounds when the bomb exploded and the subsequent bacteria on the hair caused the infection.
The blood poison is called Sepsis! Without antibiotics, internal injuries create infection. That is what he died from! No antibiotics to fight infection.
This was the basis of a book that came out in the late 90's - As Time Goes By (Michael Walsh). Generally Casablanca, Part II. Rick, Sam & The Captain become part of the resistance.
I enjoy your video's - Thanks.
Thanks for sharing!
I have been saying for a very long time , that himmler had more than a passing interest in the fate of heydrich .
There's a really great movie called Anthropoid, there's a screencap of it at 4:40
The death of Yamamoto was more a military operation than an assassination.
Yes you are right. Still, Operation Vengeance is classified as a Military assassination and listed as the first assassination by the United States (defined as targeted killing by the U.S. themselves).
If you have a chance and time to watch the video, the entire life of Yamamoto is fascinating in its own right. Have a good weekend!
@@HoH Yeah, I think that was the Americans self-congratulating themselves. Yamamoto was on a military aircraft, on a military mission and shot down in a military action by enemy aircraft. I agree: he was a prominent person who specifically targeted but it doesn't put him in the same class as someone like Yitzhak Rabin, for example. Heydrich was a clandestine operation by Czech operatives in an irregular operation which might have been supported by a military force but was acting largely on its own.
Thanks for the video. It's good.
the depth of this evil is so hard to comprehend. I often wonder what triggered this inhumane level of evil in these people.
thank you ^^ my acquaintaince described this event to me, and i was curious, very thrilling story :)
Excellent... Gold standard..... God bless all those brave brave brave paratroopers who stood up to the vile, brutal, thuggish & oppressive Nazi regime. Thank god everything has been preserved as tribute to these young hero's this is a story that needs to be told. God bless all those innocent civilians who where executed in retaliation.. RIP every single one of you, you will never ever be forgotten. Bless you all love from the UK. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Few have deserved to cry "sic semper tyrannis" more than Heydrich's assassins
Have you heard of Operation: Vengeance? It's about the Assassination of the Three Pashas, the perpetrators for the Armenian Genocide. It is a interesting topic that doesn't get a lot of attention anywhere.
Hey Sterling, I think that's Operation Nemesis. Very interesting indeed. I have created a video about Operation Vengeance, the secret mission by the American Navy to assassinate Japanese Admiral Yamamoto: th-cam.com/video/RrAtl22GACk/w-d-xo.html Let me know what you think!
How about a video on Roland Freisler? The “People’s Court” judge who’s court cases are infamous.
He died in a collapsing courthouse during a Mosquito raid iirc
@@junxianwu1874 I just thought a video on him would be quite interesting since he was a prior communist and learned his tactics from Stalinist courts.
When Hitler heard of Heydrichs assassination he was fuhrerious.
Dot, I appreciated it, at least. On Facebook, there are a lot of punmaking groups. If you want to expose yourself to the awfulness of Facebook, you might have fun in some of those groups.
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it'd be great if it had subtitles in other languages. It is a lot of information to follow and it gets a dash monotonous, so it would help to read along.
Thanks so much, greetings from the other side od the globe!
Thanks Versicle, feel free to add subtitles in your preferred language.
Pictures of the actual STEN gun used show that the buttstock was not attached.Incomplete assembly, cocking handle in safety slot? Human error may have played a big part.
The bomb used was a Hawkins grenade. basically, a tin can filled with RDX explosive, capable of destroying an armoured car. The most commonly heard cause of Heidrich's death was that the horse hair used in the Mercedes seat filling penetrated his body together with shrapnel and caused a septicaemia...
You refered Heidrich pulling his Luger, but in the movie we see him aiming with a P-38. Could easily have been either, and I guess we'll never know. After all, Goering was captured in 1945 with... a Smith & Wesson revolver!
@Duarte Simöes ¿Really?
The second picture (black and white) shows him firing a Walther PP.
Similar but less known is the Operation Heads during which in 1943-44 Polish Home Army carried out whole series of assassinations of Nazi officials guilty of crimes against Polish citizens. None of them was as high-ranked as Heydrich though. The highest ranked successfully assassinated target was the SS-Brigadefürer and Generalmajor of Polizei, SS and Police leader of the Warsaw District, Franz Kutschera.
Why didn't they do that against Soviet officials??
Interestingly, Kutschera is a very Slavic name, His ancestors were either Czechs or Poles.
@jiritichy7967 Yeah, Czech ancestry is very likely. He was from Lower Austria, and Wikipedia says that Kutschera is a Germanized version of a Czech surname Kučera. Speaking of Germans and German names of Slavic origin - everything east of the river Elbe used to be the territories of Slavic tribes. The Sorbs or Lusitians are their remnants surviving to this day. Names of many places in that part of Germany, including Leipzig and possibly Berlin itself, are of Slavic origin. It all makes the nazi believe in German racial superiority over Slavs even more ridiculous.
@292Nigel Sorry I somehow didn't notice your question until now. When someone else commented here. Long story short, the Soviet apparatus of state security and terror turned out to be better at fighting against the Polish underground than the German one. Also, during the double occupation of Poland, before June 1941, the scrutures of the Polish Underground State and Home Army were still organizing themselves. When they encountered the Soviets again in 1944, they were supposed to greet the "allies of our Allies" as representatives of the legal Polish authorities and cooperate with them if possible. It did not go well. There was armed resistance against the Soviets going on for several years after the war, but it was smaller in scale, much more decentralized, and crippled from the start. Also, they had to fight both Soviets and the Polish communist government, so it was a civil war against fellow Poles (at least in part).
@@Artur_M. Yes, very likely east Germans are about half Slavs and also to some degree Balts (like Prussians).
YES, Outstanding
There are two movies about the Heydrich's assassination, an earlier Czech one and a more recent English one. It is generally accepted that Heydrich died due to poisoning from the shrapnels contaminated by the car seat contents.
It’s so INTERESTING that he’s been dead for 80 years now .. I FIRST learned about SS-ObergruppenFuhrer Reinhard Heydrich about 25 years ago and I love the movies about him 1. Anthropoid 2. Conspiracy 3. Hitler’s SS (actor David Werner portraying Heydrich) 4. The Butcher of Prague. … NOW I need to watch 2017 “Killing Heydrich” .
I have 2 questions that have always puzzled me. Did not the Czech Govt. in Exile, as opposed to the British SOE , order the mission? Did the British SOE even know about the mission? I know people would comment that the RAF dropped them in, but the crew would know nothing about the operatives, or their missions. I really am not sure. Thanks for any help form anyone.
Hey Czech here, from what I have learned at school, they actually supported the whole operation
To my knowledge, some leading members of the Tsjech resistance asked Churchill not to proceed with the plot out of fear for the reprisals. He simply said "no"... Because reprisals would turn the people even more against the Germans. War logic...
Not good PR for the Sten gun.
Does anyone know if the assination was Hydrich's first experience in combat? Obviously he participated in torture and executions, and I would assume street violence, but was this the first time he experienced people shooting/bombing back?
He was a pilot/tailguner for The Luftwaffe earning an iron cross, a flight badge w/diamons and a wound badge after crashing without major injury but was grounded due to Himmler seeing him as "too valuable for combat".
@@roymartin500 ….then Himmler sent his personal physician 🤦🏻♂️ Idk I blame Himmler for Heydrich, the Brits for Himmler etc
Can you please do some work and videos on The battle of The Hurtgen Forrest of WWII? Why the Allies chose to even fight. And go about it the way they did. Thank you.
I'll have a look. In the meantime, I briefly mention the Battle of Hürtgen Forest in this video about the only U.S. deserter to be executed during the war: th-cam.com/video/UqO98PF4fkI/w-d-xo.html Perhaps you will find that story interesting as well.
Strange, although is strongly denied and erased from history, but he was at least on his father side Jewish. All his naval academy colleagues knew and admitted he was Jewish.
The informer who turned in the assasins was later protected by the Soviets who wanted to downplay the role of Britain in delivering Czechoslovakia from the Nazis and hype the role of the Soviet Union. Your story implies the traitor was punished when in fact he never was.
OOPS. My mistake, he was hanged but after the Communists took over they downplayed his role and that of the assassins.
Yep, he was executed.
The autopsy found that he died from blood poising from the horse hair used as cushioning in his car seat being carried by bomb fragments that entered his body.
no anti-biotics in those days. and he had no friends, its likely Himmler's doctor was not there to save him.
Yes Sepsis
Can you do a video on Obrestleutant Dr Franz Bäke
Brave men but did the cost of the operation outweigh its value. By 4/42 Heydrich was the man at the top of a well developed organisation that was capable of operating with or without him. Einzatsgruppen had been used in Poland in 1939 & were known to be active in Russia for the last 10 months. German authorities reaction to partisan activities in Yugoslavia & Greece were also well known. It would have been obvious how the German authorities would have avenged his death. The operation was a "Vanity Project" by the Czech Government in exile for which the people of Lezaky & Lidice paid dearly for.
Finally.. someone who actually knows!!
Truth. Respect.
Watched the movie last year.
very good video for a great operations. another nice operation was the kidnapping of general kraipe in Crete by british SOE and Cretan guerillas
One of those soldiers capturing him was Patrick Leigh Fermor - one of my favourite authors!
@@HoH Correct my friend. He is one of my favourite also.
Any idea why all the movies on this subject, have scores of SS killed in the church battle, when only 3 were wounded and none killed?
It's called misinformation!! Like everything else about this story.
شكرا
The massacre of Lidice makes me question the value of Operation Anthropoid. Was it worth the lives of the villagers, who had nothing to do with the whole thing, over taking the life of Rein Heydrich who was a very horrible individual.
You can question it, but, considering that several other villages (like Javoricko in 1945) were massacred and erased in a similar way in no relation to this assination and for only vague connections with resistance, it seems the Nazis it would have happened anyway. Maybe resistance in general is of questionable morality, but we might as well ask if any defensive war at all is justifiable. Lidice is remembered more because if it happening shortly after the US entered the war and became a symbol in (true) American (yes, I include Brazil, Mexico -- most of the Americas -- in the latter) propaganda than its uniqueness in Czechoslovak history.
🤔 What took place at Lidice was the result of a misunderstanding of what a Czech suspect said under appalling interrogation by the SS. However, the assassination of Heydrich at the request of the Czechoslovak government in exile had to be done. He was the most dangerous high ranking SS Officer at that time, very intelligent and ambitious. His behaviour towards the Czechs and others demonstrated the depth of cruelty he imposed on a people unable to resist. Had RH replaced AH in Berlin I dread to consider what he would have done with ultimate power. He had to be eliminated, for the greater good of civilised society. Total war demands total response in order to bring it to an end.
Do we bow down to the opressor?
@@mgway4661 Or kill the oppressor and result in thousands of deaths as retaliation to something they had no relation to. Difficult choice.
They should've made it look like an accident.
'bodyguard of lies' book by anthony cave brown outs out 3 reasons to do in heydrich, 1his death would ignite fury against the reprisals that were sure to follow his killing , 2 show the reich they were vulnerable and defeatable,3. remove the most talented smartest guy , most modern, and most calculating guy in the reich Heyrdich was ambitious, and Brit secret service believed he would easily remove or kill hitler and get the reich leadership for himself,which they feared as in their view hitler being left where he is would guarantee germanys' defeat
The retaliation though was 1000 fold back on the city.
Most importantly, the monster died, slowly, and Well deserved, bravo
Why were Gabcik and Kubis chosen despite a low assessment of their capabilities? Because they were expendable!!
Who cares? They were all trash. One of them sold them out to the Germans and picked up the reward money, which the Germans willingly paid. Yeah lovely people!!
Hitler called him
" The Man with an iron 💜"
You're SOE. What weapons would you give the assassins? Stenguns? Silencers? Grenades? Why?
Jak mňa môže chrániť z armádou plná Koncentračných táborov
Watch collector here, what are you wearing looks nice man, cheers
Hi Jordan, it's a Seiko classic watch SGEH83P1. I've always worn Seiko's and remember I proudly purchased a similar one with my first salary when I was 16. They are very affordable, not too flashy, and in my opinion, look great.
@@HoH first I've seen that model looks nice man. Thanks for sharing, I have a Seiko 5 and a Seiko SRP777 which is a throwback to their dive watches from the 70s. Awesome company, Starting to get more and more expensive though, their sister company Orient has a lot of good value still if you are ever looking. Cheers man love from San Diego
Rest in peace Reinhard Heydrich.
I wouldn’t think so
mistake! 28th December 1941 were 8 not 7 dropped in Protectorate! One of them was CURDA the tractor!
Heydrich and Canaris had a very interesting relationship.
Not a single thumbs up? Surely you deserve at least one!
I saw you somewhere
Haha, probably in another video on this channel right?
@@HoH yep
A great video Oscar! Heydrich was defiantly one of the most dangerous Germans in the Nazi organization. Efficient, calculating and ruthlessly successful. He had an interesting career start considering he wanted to serve in the German Navy and ended up in the secret police after a meeting with a high ranking Nazi official in the early years. I appreciated the information you shared on what happened to the clergy and civilians after the attact-details hardly mentioned in most accounts. I look foreward to watching more episodes in the future Oscar! Thanks again!😀
An interesting aside. Heydrich would have survived if the nazis had ever found out, that a factory in Denmark produced penicillin. They never found out and the Danes had absolutely no interest in supporting the Nazi war effort. Actually the standing order was to destroy the production line, should the occupiers ever find out, what was being produced.
It would be great to see an analysis of the days of AH as a beginning intelligence officer, immediately after WWII, seeking as he did to please military intelligence and simultaneously fulfill the revenge fantasies of his father figure, Ludendorff. Not much attention is paid to this period, yet it is so important. Ludendorff was there to receive AH after his discharge from his "country club" experience at Landsberg Prison, an extremely light sentence he received for the high crime of seeking the overthrow of the state. So much does not make sense here, in the official narrative.
When I was in Prague I made a point of visiting the church where these brave men lost their lives. In a city normally overwhelmed with tourists (pre pandemic) there were only a handful of people there. Not surprising in our world of self obsession these heroes who forfeited their lives to destroy tyranny are no doubt largely forgotten.
Strange ,he did not receive German Cross .. I have one gold
Too little too late. Would have been great if this happened in 1941 or earlier. Aktion Reinhard was still a success...
A true Animal in human form ‼️
10 mil. of Protektorat's crowns equals cca 4,1 mil. EUR.
Sshh!! They brushed that under the carpet.
Awesome video minus the whispering
We all make choices in life. We can see the evil in others, and in this case it is obvious and extreme, but we can not quite catch the evil in ourselves, let alone do anything about it, without outside help! Prayer is the outside help we all need.
This man step by step became more evil . Please put God first in your life and we can not only become the child he is proud of, but we can stop others like this animal of a man before he hurts the innocents of the world!
Lol... There's always one!
I heard somewhere that the horsehair stuffing from the seat was blown into the wound and caused the blood poisoning
I consider the greatest crime of WWII to be that any SS were allowed to survive the war.
Shalom Alacheim
Karel curda was also given an "Arian" wife on top of money
"infamy infamy, they've all got it in for me!" they didn't need to send a commando team, the Germans would have killed Heydrich if he'd gone to hospital with a paper cut.
You've been watching too many carry on movies. ☺️
How will aliens from outer space think about earthlings?No wonder there is no contact.Also this idiot's son even died at the age of ten on a bicycle.
someone just told me one of his sons ended up as a US marine
Another great video, thanks. Dreadful that poor civilians had to suffer as well. Cruel. They’re also true heroes of war 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
RIP Heydrich
Well educated on nazi history as well as myself awesome.
And that's how we do it. And that's how it's done. Dismissed.
(Keep your lame comments on our heroes to yourself. Kubiš and Gabčík got the best evaluation results from them all and were the most suitable for the mission in the country where the home resistance was intelligent, strong, well organized and unbreakable. To help the rest of the world to get rid of that cancerous, spoilt little brat called Heydrich who architected the final solution of the Jews /and mentally ill, handicapped, gypsies, gays, unfit, etc./ Mind you, they are as alive today as ever, neonazzies of the Europe and beyond. Muhaha)
PS: what kind of innovative spirit, dedication, discipline, inner motivation, character, focus and coding abilities you gotta have to execute the plan and complete the mission in the face of that many struggles? Asked Gabčík and just smiled @Cemetery Ďáblice (The Devils)
Keep deleting, sweater. AI is learning and watching you closely all.
A new take on this story: th-cam.com/video/79W9EltTW1s/w-d-xo.html
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In his book, "The Face of the Third Reich", Joachim Fest reveals that Heydrich had a secret: Jewish ancestors. It's thought that this was a motivating factor in his cruelty.
That's interesting because Hitler also had fears of Jewish blood due to his Schicklegruber family line. In fact, when he took over Austria he had a military base built over the family Cemetery with all the old Schicklegruber tombstones carried off. Didn't appreciate those family researcher's.
@@douglasturner6153 The Shickelgruber connection was only a maybe. It was the result of an alleged affir between his mother and a wealthy Jewish man she worked for (as I recall it). Adolf may have covered it up but it wasn't ever proven. The likelihood is that the alcoholic Alois was his father.
Heydrich, on the other hand, had clear Jewish ancestry (according to Fest).
Who cares all evil