The Justified Death of the Butcher of Prague
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ต.ค. 2024
- In 1942 British trained Czechoslovak paratroopers carried out Operation Anthropoid, a plan to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich the Nazi deputy Reichs Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. This is the story of how the plan was carried out and the terrible consequences including the destruction of the village of Lidice.
I have done my best to be accurate so I apologise if there are any factual mistakes. Also I apologise for any mispronunciation of Czech names.
A beautifully put together piece about a real monster Heydrich and the horrific cost of disposing of him.
I hadn't seen Lidice gardens or monuments before.
Truly moving
Thank you for your very kind comments. The barbarity of the Nazis was really apparent in their response especially at Lidice. The memorial at the at the same time is sad and uplifting.
@@johnsharpTravelandAviation. I only seen Czechoslovakia through movies, history books documentaries.
Ppl talk about Heydrich in the past tense, sadly there have been versions of him in Cambodia and many others I really fear that lessons of recent history have been forgotten already
@@graemewilson7975 so true. Humans in general are unable to fully pass along the lessons of the past, sadly.
Very good factual documentary. The Allied forces post war should not have allowed Czechoslovakia into the Soviet sphere - a huge mistake. The Czechs were very industrious and brave but unfortunately shared a peppered border with Germany - Sudentenland. They had no chance from the very start. The Nazis knew this. God bless the Czech Republic 🇨🇿 and Slovakia 🇸🇰.
Stalin would not allow Czechoslovakia to be a free country.
Thank you for your kind words. After 6 years of war the allies did not have the stomach for a further war with the Soviet Union and this could be regarded as a second betrayal after the Munich Agreement handed Czechoslovakia to Germany virtually on a plate.
@@johnsharpTravelandAviation. Poland invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938.
@@JamesRichards-mj9kw Poland was persuaded to after the Munich conference of 1938 to provoke a Gernan reaction.
@@kbanghart Hitler had authorised the Polish invasion of Czechoslovakia in advance.
As ye sow, so shall ye reap Heydrich.
Thank you for commenting, and I agree, just deserts!
He reaped plenty
@@mavjimbo for sure, but it's so difficult to think of those tortured because of it.
He was delt with in a manor that showed the feelings that they had for him was nice to know the barstard suffered before he died
Very informative documentary
Heydrich was my great 2nd Uncle. My name is Christopher Tristan-Eugene ****** leaving my last name out. The Operation really was a fuck up, but they got lucky as the doctors who were treating Heydrich wouldn't take the advice of Morrell to use a treatment he insisted the doctor use.
Good heavens, I never expected to hear from anyone related to Heydrich. I agree with your comments about the Operation and it was only due to the medical care that the Operation succeeded at all! Thank you very much for commenting.
Tell me, who was the dr that gave the medical advice?
Hitlers personal doctor Theo morrell
@@markjones327 i know, and Dr Gebhardt declined Morell‘s advice to administer antibiotics. But i do not believe that the nephew of Heydrich is for real :-))
I also have relatives who were working with him, as well as a great uncle who was a ace pilot in WW2. My grandfather did 10 years of forced labour in Soviet Union.
Thank you that was excellent.... Wow what a time for the machine gun to jam..... RIP to everyone who suffered in the attrocaties of the Natzi regime.... 🙏
Thank you very much for your kind comments. Yes it was an example of "the best laid plans of mice and men" going horribly wrong and I agree we should remember all those who died at the hands of the Nazis.
@@johnsharpTravelandAviation. Churchill caused all of the deaths.
The sten was pretty basic , and was prone to jam .The Russians had the excellent PSH sub machine gun and the Germans had the schmeisser MP40 .The Sten was a rushed together weapon .BUT was easy to hide and assemble.
@@John-ob7dh yes, sometimes you have to go with what you've got. But we all have to admit that grenade toss was fantastic. If it had hit the car in other places, could have easily bounced away, and end up in a similar situation like the infamous table leg of July 20, '44.
@@kbanghart Heydrich was a victim of his own vanity. Instead of ordering the driver to keep going he stopped him so he could shoot it out .But that gave a chance for the grenade to be thrown.
No loss to humanity.
Thank you for commenting. Unfortunately he was only one of many.
Great film!
Thanks very much Chris
Heydrich was probably the most feared of the Nazis .
He was a nothing without the soldiers. He didn’t suffer enough. I’d hate to be where he is going on judgement day. Not my problem!
Most feared? Depends on your point of view, I suppose.
@@kbanghart well they say even his fellow nazis feared him .He had Hitlers ear.
That seat in the car had horse hair for padding. Some of that got in the wound and killed him. A slow miserable death for the bastard he was
Why are the loosing side always described as monsters.
Hopefully he suffered tremendously before he died.
all is told in this video just consists of lies made up by the winners. watch Europa The Last Battle(documentry)If you want to learn the truth hidden by the winners
He died of sceptis, I had that before and was very sick with very high fever, so it's likely he did suffer.
@@MarvinHartmann452I've survived the same, and it"s not much fun at all !
Himmler and Hitler were both watching their backs with Heydrich.
For those that are interested, the song played during the first 3.5 minutes is Horst-Wessel-Lied (anthem of the Nazi Party). In English, pronounced (in Texas redneck), Horse-t Vessel lead. Lead as in "Lead from the front." Interestingly, the song has been banned in Germany & Austria since the end of World War II and for good reason. But imagine going to jail for playing a song.
I like this video's version of the song (no, I'm not a Nazi, racist or White supremacist), but good luck finding it (any version), especially on youtube, as they always remove the song because it represents pure hate and evil.
For those that think the unspeakable horrors perpetrated by the subhuman Nazi's (and their entire country) could not happen again - "think" again. Even the US is one Treaty of Versailles, coupled with 20 years of nationwide poverty/strife and someone like Hitler (Trump)...away from it.
Imagine an entire country perpetrating mass genocide for a "leader," or in the case of the Nazi's, Mein Führer Adolf Hitler.
It´s song called :"Die Fähne hoch !"(Lift up your banners) and it´s anthem of SS and SA marching in tight lines..(translation of lyrics)
@@norbertpecheq3427 Die Fahne hoch! Die Reihen fest geschlossen!
SA marschiert mit ruhig festem Schritt.
Kam'raden, die Rotfront und Reaktion erschossen,
Marschier'n im Geist in unser'n Reihen mit.
Die Straße frei den braunen Bataillonen.
Die Straße frei dem Sturmabteilungsmann!
Es schau'n aufs Hakenkreuz voll Hoffnung schon Millionen.
Der Tag für Freiheit und für Brot bricht an!
Zum letzten Mal wird Sturmalarm geblasen!
Zum Kampfe steh'n wir alle schon bereit!
Schon flattern Hitlerfahnen über allen Straßen.
Die Knechtschaft dauert nur noch kurze Zeit!
(repeat first stanza)
Thank you for such a full comment. I think that I got the tune from the internet but I am sure that it is on TH-cam. Interesting comparisons and lets hope it never happens!
@@johnsharpTravelandAviation. Thank you! It's up to the good humans on Earth to ensure it never does - educated voting is important, too. Thanks for your reply!
Don't call anyone "subhuman" it makes you on the same level as they are.
It can be argued that the assassination was not very useful action, regardless of the fact that Heydrich fully deserved it. Reprisals were thorough and caused death of 1500 chechz. And the endlösung went on, was even accelerated. Kaltenbrunner took over the job and he was by no means more lenient than his predecessor.
Thank you for commenting. I believe the total death toll was nearer 5,000! and was one of the reasons that this was the only state sponsored assassination of WW2.
True,. But on the other hand, can you blame them? The alternative was to hide and do nothing. And who knows, those 5000 may have died anyway but in different places under different circumstances.
@@kbanghart Thank you for commenting. I think that this was one of the reasons that the Czech government in exile took this course of action - something had to be done and seen to be done.
@@kbanghart That is a point too, but obviously there were many more options than to kill Heydrich or do nothing. Perhaps some sabotage would have been more benificial overall? Skoda factories or railroads, without the huge prestige game that involved the Heydrich affair and practicly forced germans to react brutally.
@@Ah01
For sure other options, but of course many people had their own opinions. From wiki... and of course you can check the sources referenced if you like...
"The exiled government felt that it had to do something that would inspire the Czechoslovaks, as well as show the world that the Czechs and Slovaks were allies. In particular, Beneš felt that a dramatic action displaying a Czech contribution to the Allied cause would make it politically harder for the British to forge any possible peace agreement with Germany that would undermine Czech national interests. Heydrich was chosen over Karl Hermann Frank as an assassination target due to his status as the acting Protector of Bohemia and Moravia as well as his reputation for terrorizing local citizens. The operation was also intended to demonstrate to senior Nazis that they were not beyond the reach of Allied forces and the resistance groups they supported."
Concentration camps were in Czech Republic and Poland
360p?? really??
He had done nothing wrong.
The butcher got butchered.
Had that maniac lived, it's quite possible the death count of pows and Jews would have been significantly higher. He had hundreds of methods to commit genocide. He was a monster.
Very good documentary!
Thank you for your kind words.
all is told in this video just consists of lies made up by the winners. watch Europa The Last Battle(documentry)If you want to learn the truth hidden by the winners
He got exactly what he deserved ..
No that was still too mild. The monster hooefully now suffers in hell some more.
@@gabrielleaumont3971 hopefully those fires of hell are still burning that creature
The hangman of Prague.
I wonder what the relatives people like Heydrich think of their famous ancestors.
His wife kept beeing loyal nazi till her very end in 1985. his son supports the mother Lina, one daughter was 2 years old and remembers a very little, the last daughter was born after Heydrichs dead.
My own grandfather was still very fervent in his ideologies until he died. He never forgot was the soviet did to him. He was the SS equivalent of a Colonel.
I would imagine very proud.
the Unjustified killing of Reinhard Heydrich
RIP
A Good man murdered.
The retribution was horrific
Better to have left it alone
By arming resistance groups
Britain didn't take into account
The reprisals
Anyway it backfired in ulster
Many years later when british
Occupation troops were targeted by ira in armagh
Also aden cyprus and palestine!
I've noticed the facial features of Heydrich and Marge Greene are outstandingly similar are they related
Arguments go on today whether the cost in lives was worth killing him.
Tbe church where the Czech commandos died still has the bullet marks on the walls.
He was Jewish but never considered a butcher.
He was not!!! where you get this legends from? Once you cleared first yout statement, come to Prague, go to see the crypt, and then try to tell he wasn´t a butcher again)
He wasn't a jew. This is nonsense.
Ok, he was a Maccabee who sometimes call themselves Jews or whatever they think they can get away with.
He was not Jewish
He certainly was not a Gentile.
shrimp
Rest in peace Reinhard Heydrich.
Thank you for commenting but I'm not sure that I support your sentiment.
Rest in piss he’s burning😂
Are you crazy ??????
He can rot in hell!
RIP (Rest In Pieces).
Wir werden dich nie vergessen. Danke im Namen des Vaterland.