Greetings from Czechia, thanks for covering this! Found your channel couple of days ago and didn't stop watching it since then. Keep it up, loving your videos!
Now please do his arch enemy! Admiral Wilhelm Kanaris, head of the Abwhera inteligence and counter inteligence service who was actively and secretly fighting hitler!
@@ehrldawg Hi, yes they are considered national heroes and I believe there are places named after them. I live in the UK but I am originally from Czech republic and there are also streets named "Lidice street" in the UK.
A classic and very moving, and mostly (but not always) accurate movie about the assassination is Operation Daybreak from 1975. I highly recommend watching it. The battle in the Cathedral was, frankly, epic. They lasted two hours against 750 soldiers who couldn't take them alive, throwing everything against them including flooding them with tear gas and everything else at their disposal. The Czech paratroopers were only armed with small arms and managed to kill around 14 soldiers and wound dozens more before killing themselves before being overrun. They shouldn't be forgotten for their bravery against all odds.
Pretty good tension and gloom in that film. I stayed in Prague and the church was round the corner from my hotel. It still has many bullet marks on the exterior. The siege lasted six hours.
I agree, I'd like to see a warts and all Biographic on Simon. May have to get the people he knows to help him understand details about himself he might now be aware of. Also he may have to swallow his pride and admit details like bad habits, or any blunders he's had in life.
@spudnic88 @Vojtěch Ptáček And what happened after those 2 agents killed Heydrich?! Oh yeah, that's right... the SS came in and butchered everyone in Lidice, and were ruthless in doing so. Those 2 agents should be ashamed of themselves and so should be the British... Heydrichs assassination caused more harm and damage as a result of the stupidity of the assassination.
But to be honest, why did the Allies have to wait for an atrocity to occur against the Czechs in order to grant them back the land that was historically theirs?
@@davidkennedy1077 lol me to and I would watch a documentary on Keanu. I was just waiting for everyone to jump down my throat and tell me Constantine was a real historical figure lol
beautiful piece! I saw the movie and with your point of view its like combining your video and the movie in a more complete and detailed documentary/movie. Cheers!!!!!
You should have mentioned Heydrich kid brother 'Heinz Heydrich'. Heinz Heydrich is a very interesting character; Heinz loved is older brother and was devastated after the assassination. After Reinhard's death Heinz went to Berlin to collect his brother's personal items from his offices; and accidentally came across 'Heydrich secret files'. Heinz's wife said after the war that her husband locked himself alone inside a room for days with only 'Heydrich secret files' after returning from Berlin. Soon after, Heinz's began forging passports and giving them to Jewish families. The Gestapo noticed that a great deal of passports were disappearing under Heinz's watch and wanted to talk to him about it. Heinz's thought the gestapo was on to him so he killed himself.
I haven't known this but it seems that he shared a lot with Albert Goering. Both were younger brothers of high ranking nazis yet they both saved many lives during this tragic period.
That’s was fascinating, these bite size pieces of history will be watched by future generations. It’s so important that we never forget the evils of each member of the Nazi plan.
not every nazi was evil just as every ally wasn't good there is one thing to remember allways! It's the victors who write history not the other way around.
I'm impressed that you found a thumbnail picture of the exact moment the bomb exploded behind his car. He looks awfully calm despite the massive explosion, It actually made me wonder if this was the biographical channel, or a trailer from the new Wolfenstein game....no, you guys do great work, and love Simon. I just liked the old thumbnails better.
My Grandad Fran was meant to be assigned to Operation Anthropoid!! Fortunately he was withdrawn from the mission and returned to England after he got my grandmother pregnant.. Wouldn’t be here today otherwise. RIP to all of his friends who never returned from the mission 😔
Anthropoid film is fantastic and amazing and one of the best definitive versions of his assassinations. It's a fantastic movie and one of the best WW2 films out there.
Simon, I love all of your videos and I would like to request a video on Ben Ferencz. He has become a personal hero from all the good he has done in his life and still continues to do at age 96. You cannot get a more inspiring life story. From the start of growing poor in New York, to a prosecutor of the Nuremberg trials, to helping to push for the International Criminal Court. Please, people need this story now more than ever!
Watch the film, “Conspiracy” about the Wannsee conference, starring Kenneth Branagh as Heydrich and Stanley Tucci as Eichmann. Was directly written based off the only copy of the minutes from that meeting, found in Martin Luthers offices in 1947. Branagh is amazing and captures to complete control Heydrich and the SS had over other powerful members of the party. The fear they instilled and total obedience they demanded comes across perfectly, you could only imagine working with people like this, let alone becoming an enemy of them.
"Reichskristallnacht" is actually considered slightly offensive in Germany, because it's used as an euphemism. We call it "Reichspogromnacht" (Pogrom Night of 1938), because Crystal Night makes it sound as if all of the Nazis gathered in a ball room and danced the night away ~ Other than that, I found this video really interesting. A lot of my family lived in Sudetenland/Czech during Heydrichs time there, but I don't have a lot of relatives who survived him. Thank you for covering him and his crimes so tactfully.
Please investigate more about Reinhard Heydrich death, you will find out that (according to official history writing) he died in Hospital at 04th June 1942 because he received no Penicelline (because Germany hat no modern antibiotics productions) after the hand grenade attack carried out by british agents in Prague BUT you will find out that Germany had plenty of Penicelline taken from other countries as Poland, Czechia, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Denmark and France...all those countries had large imported stocks made in UK or under licence. Germany also manufactured synthetical antibiotics that were quite effective. I am talking about Richard Kuhn / SS controlled SCHERING Werke and the preparate 3065. All those effective drugs were available for high ranking party members and I tell you Heydrich was the 3rd powerful man after Hitler and Himmler. Couldn´t it be that Heydrichs death was a cover story and he became the "inoffical" administration brain of the SUPER HIGH TECH program. Reinhard Heyrich was an evil mastermind, hyper intelligent and ruthless. Hans Kammler certainly was NOT the highest person in the SS super weapon program (and even more important not the highest person in the SD (and I am not talking about Ernst Kaltenbrunner or Heinrich Mueller who were only "Mielkes" chasing and killing Anti-Nazi conspirators or libreating Mussolini!) Kammler not even received the highest SD rank "OBERSTGRUPPENFÜHER" even Kaltenbrunner was not SD OBERSTGRUPPENFÜHRER. But we know that there were several high ranking Scientists and Organisators in the German super weapon program carrying the title OBERSTGRUPPENFÜHRER. Hans Kammler was boss of the Jägerstab and most secret facility-construction projects BUT NOT the general Organisator of the secret SD high tech armament program (those "things" beyond ME 262, V1 and V2). (Even Speer did not know everything about the superweapons because SD did not fully trust him, instead of that SD informed Bormann very well, and Bormann (he himself was SS Obergruppenführer like Kammler!) was a close friend of the mayor of Wechmar, who was a high SD member involved in that S3 thing!) Himmler was only on paper the REICHSFÜHRER SS and Boss of the police and SD but he was more in the concetration camp "thing" and less the driving mind behind the superweapons. Himmler was not the most intelligent man at all! Just think about how it would have been if Heydrich was the true head of the deep SD state. The SD was a (much feared!) state in the state of the SS and the SS was a state in the state (Reich) itself. Could it be that Heydrich was the hidden superbrain behind the Superweapons program, maybe his office was located at Riese, according to witnesses (a Reichspost engineer from the Ardenne team who helped with the installation of a second betatron there) we know that the SS and SD in Riese had completely different badges on their uniforms not the "normal SS or SD" signs. So what kind of organisation was that and who was responsible for the Riese "thing" ?
Please, please do one about Raoul Wallenberg. He saved tens of thousands of jews in Budapest, with great risk to his own life. He even negotiated with Adolf Eichmann. Later, the Soviets arrested him because they thought he was a spy. And Russia has to this day refused to give any information about what happened to him. He is sadly not well known. It would be really awesome if you made a biographic about him.
Why would he do a video about someone no one has heard of a dot on history and as the Zulu had no written history and information on him could be false
Hi Sion, I really like your channels. Please let me give you some information on Czech roll in the WWII especial in betel of Britain. There was 2 Czech fighter squadron in RAF. One of the top fighter pilot of all betel of Britain with 17 kills was Czech pilot Josef František (he was flying with 303 polish squadron is host) There was 84 Czech pilot participating in the betel.
He is another fine example of how our choices set our destiny and in this case a whole lot of evil. While I think someone else would have stepped forward for the job, he ends up following a path of evil because of the way he dumped a girlfriend, which led to a job loss, which led to....
It would be awesome if you please did a biography on Curly from the three stooges. I feel most funny big men, slapstick and basic humor can be traced back to him.
Nobody will believe this but I'll say it anyway. My great-grandfather made the suitcase that had the bomb in it. He obviously couldn't come out about that because he'd get shot. He made suitcases and luggage bags in prauge. He said when he saw the picture of the suitcase it was the one he made the previous week for some guy who paid him a lot of money for it. He died in the early to mid 80s or very late 70s before I was born. My Dad said he was told that story a couple times by both my grandparents and him. Interesting huh? I don't expect anyone to believe it but I still wanted to share anyway cause I never get a chance to talk about that. This guy never comes up in history class in the US so it's not something I was ever able to discuss in highschool.
He was,. And He had a lucky escape,. Coming down behind enemy lines but managed to get back unscathed. Hitler forbid him to fly thereafter, no doubt because he was invaluable to the Riech.
In the technical museum of Prague there is a bulletproof Mercedes that was owned by the general who replaced heydrich, the convertibles were converted to bulletproof hard tops after this. They are some gorgeous Mercedes Benz cars with a horrendous ownership story
thats not what i read happened after Reinhards' assassination... in the history books i've read, what happened in Lidice was EVERYONE was crammed in a large barn that was made of wood, and then the barn was set on fire all around... the men and boys of Lidice were not simply just shot.. and nobody from that village was sent to any concentration camps... what happened in Lidice was simply Hitler's revenge for Heydrich
So you have heard of the Hangman. He actually hates his nickname. Now, why he would hate the nickname the Hangman is beyond me, he's practically done everything to earn it.
I have never heard of this man until today. Honestly really out did yourself on this bio! But then again I wouldn't expect any less from a man who lives in Prague! :)
Simon I respect all your work. There are some mistakes and lack of a bigger picture in this video. First big mistake is that the granade that hit heydrich didn't have shrapnels! It was a small bag of explosive material with detonator designed by British. What killed him was gangrene caused by pieces of his own uniform which contaminated the wounds! There was no immidient threat on his life after the attack. He died because there were no antibiotics in the Prague hospital at that moment. Second mistake is the real reason why Heydrich was so hard on crushing the little czech resistance that was. He was certain that Wilhelm Canaris, head of Abwhera inteligence service was colaborating with the British. He established that Canaris was communicating through 3 leaders of czech resistance called "3 kings" Heydrich was convinced that by capturing them he will gather enough concrete evidence of treason by Canaris. The allies supported asssnation of heydrich in fear of deconspiring the colaboration between them and Canaris. And with that comes my suggesion to make a video about the endless efford to kill hittler carried on by Wilhelm Canaris. Keep up the good work👍
Juiced up the gills with super male vitality. Constantly Jack's off too tyranny porn. Whilst intergalactic shape-shifting kid raping vampires turn the frogs gay. Done.
@@stephenb.rossetti7400 Nicknames are so strange. So when did the Czechs settle on "Hangman" instead of alternating between it and "Butcher"? Klaus Barbie's crimes in France began after Heydrich's death. Thusly, is there a possibility people said "Yeah ok, Barbie is more of a butcher compared to Heydrich. So it's settled then? Heydrich is the hangman and Barbie the butcher?"
Thinking about the SS really makes you think of how sick people are and makes you wonder how many people would abuse their powers like that today if they got the power these people had.
Perhaps a a video on Euler, Gauß, al-Battan, Alhazeni and the likes, might be a bit of a nice change? Important people for mathematics, engineering or science in general could be pretty interesting and many, many important mathematicians are way too little known!
Do not forget that Heidrichs septicemia spread because NO German doctor dared step in and take responsability for treating Heidrich. For the fear of becoming 'the doctor that could be suspected of not WANTING to save Heydrich' ....new lodgings curtesy of Gestapo etc.
Excuse me? did you just claim the holocaust was the 20th century’s worst genocide? By what metric, surely not body count, it’s at least the fourth, possibly the fifth largest in the 20th century if your looking at body count.
Very unfair the remark that Polish had RAF pilots and suggesting Czechs did not have. Czech pilots in the ranks of RAF were among the most numerous of foreigner personnel in RAF. Making a number of aces.
It would be nice if you did an episode on Jean Bart, a French privateer that escape captivity in England and rowed across the Channel, among other things.
True and it is the Communists, and their other Stalinist and Maoist-types who infest Western universities and bureaucracies who control the narrative and wrote the histories.
Just not true. And the demonisation of universities perfectly echoes the persecution of intellectuals under the nazis and all dictators. Fear of free thinkers is a characteristic of all dictators.
@@archstanton6102 So national socialism isn't left-wing? Could you explain the doctrine of national socialism? Could you go over the economic policies of Germany during that time?
@DCM88 I have been under the impression that Germany during that time didn't have a right-wing authoritarian government (which seems to be considered a fact), but a left-wing one. I guess that's what I was going for. I don't think it was wrong to use those terms in this context. I've heard some people say that national socialism is between capitalism and socialism or something like that. Would that be the third position? I don't really know myself. I think Hitler said something about the socialism part in in national socialism not being the same as marxian socialism, but something else that I can't remember now. I know those terms aren't synonymous with socialist or capitalist. I don't understand why you even said that. In my country, pretty much nobody refers to themselves as capitalist or socialist. It's just right- and left-wing in our little parliamentary republic. This marks the first time I have been thought to be american lol. I don't even understand how you came to that conclusion, though. I guess you said those things on the weird presumption that I'm an american. Though, I guess americans do use those terms that way. I dunno, words change meaning, get bastardized, that kinda thing. That's how it goes, I guess... I'm not super knowledgeable about politics and history, or for that matter about anything really lol, for example the english language, so I like asking questions.
But Czechoslovaks were fighting hard in 1940, 41.. : 4 RAF squadrons (310th, 312th and 313th fighter, 311th bomber), czechoslovak 11th infantry battalion in the battle of Tobruk. Not to mention the intelligence streaming out of the protectorate.
I would learn about this guy from of places "metal gear solid" when I was younger!!!Then I use AOL to research him....Yes AOL dial up internet until my mom needs to use the phone.
He brought new meaning to the term "evil monster." Very cold, perhaps even soulless eyes, like Stephen Miller, now squatting in our HIte House, who also has a Jewish background. Running from one's roots for no reason other than ambition and hatred, perhaps self-hatred.
You guys should do a video about Witold Pilecki, the Polish soldier who showed "balls of steel" by allowing himself to be sent to Auschwitz, created a resistance movement there, escaped, participated in the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, and was executed by post-war communists for his connections to the Polish government in exile. A man who says, "I've been trying to live my life so that in the hour of my death I would rather feel joy, than fear" has got to have a story worth a video on this channel!
Greetings from Czechia, thanks for covering this!
Found your channel couple of days ago and didn't stop watching it since then. Keep it up, loving your videos!
They have a few channels they do, look up “Top Tenz” (spelled with a “Z”) and “Today I Found Out”, all their stuff is top notch.
Now please do his arch enemy! Admiral Wilhelm Kanaris, head of the Abwhera inteligence and counter inteligence service who was actively and secretly fighting hitler!
To my shame. I'm 61 years old and before watching this I'd never heard of Lidice.
Are Kubis and Gabcik national heros? Are there streets,towns,and schools named after them?
@@ehrldawg Hi, yes they are considered national heroes and I believe there are places named after them.
I live in the UK but I am originally from Czech republic and there are also streets named "Lidice street" in the UK.
A classic and very moving, and mostly (but not always) accurate movie about the assassination is Operation Daybreak from 1975. I highly recommend watching it. The battle in the Cathedral was, frankly, epic. They lasted two hours against 750 soldiers who couldn't take them alive, throwing everything against them including flooding them with tear gas and everything else at their disposal. The Czech paratroopers were only armed with small arms and managed to kill around 14 soldiers and wound dozens more before killing themselves before being overrun. They shouldn't be forgotten for their bravery against all odds.
That was a great movie. Martin Shaw.
Pretty good tension and gloom in that film. I stayed in Prague and the church was round the corner from my hotel. It still has many bullet marks on the exterior. The siege lasted six hours.
I think the Czech movie Assasination from the 60s is the best one but it is not in english sadly
They been resting in piss 😂 name one name of them 😂👌
*Czechoslovak
At 1 million subscribers, you should do one about yourself.
Would be interesting!
Agreed
Yup do it please
I agree, I'd like to see a warts and all Biographic on Simon. May have to get the people he knows to help him understand details about himself he might now be aware of. Also he may have to swallow his pride and admit details like bad habits, or any blunders he's had in life.
Hahaha, guys, I'm not nearly notable enough to have a biography on myself. Maybe in 30 years. Probably not.
Rest in peace but never be forgotten Jozef Gabčík, Jan Kubiš and all who risked their lives or died to bring down an evil man.
Russia was the real enemy but y'all aint ready to talk about that yet
^shut up
@@derrmann1800 what?
@@derrmann1800 Nazis apologist detected
"Evil"
I’ve been waiting for Reinhard
So have been Gabčík and Kubiš. ;-)
@spudnic88 @Vojtěch Ptáček And what happened after those 2 agents killed Heydrich?! Oh yeah, that's right... the SS came in and butchered everyone in Lidice, and were ruthless in doing so. Those 2 agents should be ashamed of themselves and so should be the British... Heydrichs assassination caused more harm and damage as a result of the stupidity of the assassination.
True, but as Simon said, that assassination and Lidice allowed Czechoslovakia to be a whole once again after the war.
But to be honest, why did the Allies have to wait for an atrocity to occur against the Czechs in order to grant them back the land that was historically theirs?
Also the inspiration for the song "SS-3" by Slayer ("The Hangman of Prague")
A fellow metal fan and history buff. Good to meet you.
Came here looking for the Slayer fans 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Marduk also wrote 'The Hangman of Prague' and 'The Blond Beast' about Heydrich.
Same for the Lamb if God track “Anthropoid” 🤘🤘
Slayer did a lot of songs like that including one about Josef Mengele and one about Unit 731
Chris Marshall you’re welcome 😎😁
Do Constantine next. The man who made Christianity mainstream in Europe and converged the council of nicea.
He also killed his son and his second wife. Well, nobody is perfect
Francisco MM I believe he was a saint too lol
Shut up! No one wants to see a documentary on Keanu Reeves!
@@edwardsanchez3708 as soon as I saw Constantine the movie was the first thing I thought of haha!!!
@@davidkennedy1077 lol me to and I would watch a documentary on Keanu. I was just waiting for everyone to jump down my throat and tell me Constantine was a real historical figure lol
At the end of the video I felt so proud 😊 Hi from Czech republic
Chobot, ha ha
Are you married now ?
One of the only things that makes me stop playing with the puppies??? Biographics notice!!!!
Is that code for something else, or do you really house little doggies?
@@chrismarshall4523 I prefer to believe that he runs an animal shelter.
@@chrismarshall4523 Puppies=balls
Lol...you guys are ca-raaazy
Chris Marshall
It’s code for “sucking the lipstick-like penises of small dogs”
I’ve been looking forward to this!!!
Cheers from East Texas
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I love visiting Corpus in the Summer
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I could feel this one really got to you.
Thank you for your work; you are very much appreciated!
Yeah, the depths of the Nazi party has an ability to do that :(
beautiful piece! I saw the movie and with your point of view its like combining your video and the movie in a more complete and detailed documentary/movie. Cheers!!!!!
His death was such a twist of fate! Very informative and great documentary as always! Thanks
You should have mentioned Heydrich kid brother 'Heinz Heydrich'.
Heinz Heydrich is a very interesting character; Heinz loved is older brother and was devastated after the assassination.
After Reinhard's death Heinz went to Berlin to collect his brother's personal items from his offices; and accidentally came across 'Heydrich secret files'.
Heinz's wife said after the war that her husband locked himself alone inside a room for days with only 'Heydrich secret files' after returning from Berlin.
Soon after, Heinz's began forging passports and giving them to Jewish families.
The Gestapo noticed that a great deal of passports were disappearing under Heinz's watch and wanted to talk to him about it.
Heinz's thought the gestapo was on to him so he killed himself.
I haven't known this but it seems that he shared a lot with Albert Goering. Both were younger brothers of high ranking nazis yet they both saved many lives during this tragic period.
This was the real tragedy.
That’s was fascinating, these bite size pieces of history will be watched by future generations. It’s so important that we never forget the evils of each member of the Nazi plan.
We will, we are, we have: version 2 is already starting right now.
Ironically evil never dies
not every nazi was evil just as every ally wasn't good there is one thing to remember allways! It's the victors who write history not the other way around.
@@pejjiz What you said is a load of B.S.
@@musiclover01ization hows so, please explain?
I'm impressed that you found a thumbnail picture of the exact moment the bomb exploded behind his car. He looks awfully calm despite the massive explosion, It actually made me wonder if this was the biographical channel, or a trailer from the new Wolfenstein game....no, you guys do great work, and love Simon. I just liked the old thumbnails better.
this vid was just on time because i just finished binge watching the man in the high castle (where heydrich is a main character)
My Grandad Fran was meant to be assigned to Operation Anthropoid!! Fortunately he was withdrawn from the mission and returned to England after he got my grandmother pregnant.. Wouldn’t be here today otherwise. RIP to all of his friends who never returned from the mission 😔
I take issue with describing the Czech resistance “only blowing up a few factories” numerous Czechoslovakian pilots were Battle of Britain aces.
In Prague you can visit the catacombes under the church where those heroes fought and died. I highly recommend it when you are there
The film (Anthropoid) where he was assassinated is great. Watch it.
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Very well acted movie.
Really like a play, and Tucci is chilling as Eichmann.
Anthropoid film is fantastic and amazing and one of the best definitive versions of his assassinations. It's a fantastic movie and one of the best WW2 films out there.
These videos can be hard to watch.. some sad stuff. But those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it
22:41 - Imagine being remembered as the guy who gave up the whereabouts of the two assassins.
They shouldn't have assassinated him then. Most Czechs would eventually see an increase in quality of life if they were to join the German state.
I love how respectful you are at the end of the videos like this. It really stands out
I had never heard of this guy until I saw the movie Conspiracy. Interesting movie with a very dark subject matter.
9:20
Ok, the dude was a monster, but I have respect for those improv skills. We've all lied during interviews but damn.
Simon, I love all of your videos and I would like to request a video on Ben Ferencz. He has become a personal hero from all the good he has done in his life and still continues to do at age 96. You cannot get a more inspiring life story. From the start of growing poor in New York, to a prosecutor of the Nuremberg trials, to helping to push for the International Criminal Court. Please, people need this story now more than ever!
Watch the film, “Conspiracy” about the Wannsee conference, starring Kenneth Branagh as Heydrich and Stanley Tucci as Eichmann. Was directly written based off the only copy of the minutes from that meeting, found in Martin Luthers offices in 1947. Branagh is amazing and captures to complete control Heydrich and the SS had over other powerful members of the party. The fear they instilled and total obedience they demanded comes across perfectly, you could only imagine working with people like this, let alone becoming an enemy of them.
I love the vernacular used in these presentations, i.e. "his bff", absolute class! Cheers from Canada
"Reichskristallnacht" is actually considered slightly offensive in Germany, because it's used as an euphemism. We call it "Reichspogromnacht" (Pogrom Night of 1938), because Crystal Night makes it sound as if all of the Nazis gathered in a ball room and danced the night away ~
Other than that, I found this video really interesting. A lot of my family lived in Sudetenland/Czech during Heydrichs time there, but I don't have a lot of relatives who survived him. Thank you for covering him and his crimes so tactfully.
Fun Fact : He died from his wounds after 8 days because he refused to have any non-Aryan doctor treat him
Please investigate more about Reinhard Heydrich death, you will find out that (according to official history writing) he died in Hospital at 04th June 1942 because he received no Penicelline (because Germany hat no modern antibiotics productions) after the hand grenade attack carried out by british agents in Prague BUT you will find out that Germany had plenty of Penicelline taken from other countries as Poland, Czechia, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Denmark and France...all those countries had large imported stocks made in UK or under licence. Germany also manufactured synthetical antibiotics that were quite effective. I am talking about Richard Kuhn / SS controlled SCHERING Werke and the preparate 3065. All those effective drugs were available for high ranking party members and I tell you Heydrich was the 3rd powerful man after Hitler and Himmler. Couldn´t it be that Heydrichs death was a cover story and he became the "inoffical" administration brain of the SUPER HIGH TECH program. Reinhard Heyrich was an evil mastermind, hyper intelligent and ruthless. Hans Kammler certainly was NOT the highest person in the SS super weapon program (and even more important not the highest person in the SD (and I am not talking about Ernst Kaltenbrunner or Heinrich Mueller who were only "Mielkes" chasing and killing Anti-Nazi conspirators or libreating Mussolini!) Kammler not even received the highest SD rank "OBERSTGRUPPENFÜHER" even Kaltenbrunner was not SD OBERSTGRUPPENFÜHRER. But we know that there were several high ranking Scientists and Organisators in the German super weapon program carrying the title OBERSTGRUPPENFÜHRER. Hans Kammler was boss of the Jägerstab and most secret facility-construction projects BUT NOT the general Organisator of the secret SD high tech armament program (those "things" beyond ME 262, V1 and V2). (Even Speer did not know everything about the superweapons because SD did not fully trust him, instead of that SD informed Bormann very well, and Bormann (he himself was SS Obergruppenführer like Kammler!) was a close friend of the mayor of Wechmar, who was a high SD member involved in that S3 thing!) Himmler was only on paper the REICHSFÜHRER SS and Boss of the police and SD but he was more in the concetration camp "thing" and less the driving mind behind the superweapons. Himmler was not the most intelligent man at all! Just think about how it would have been if Heydrich was the true head of the deep SD state. The SD was a (much feared!) state in the state of the SS and the SS was a state in the state (Reich) itself. Could it be that Heydrich was the hidden superbrain behind the Superweapons program, maybe his office was located at Riese, according to witnesses (a Reichspost engineer from the Ardenne team who helped with the installation of a second betatron there) we know that the SS and SD in Riese had completely different badges on their uniforms not the "normal SS or SD" signs. So what kind of organisation was that and who was responsible for the Riese "thing" ?
Talking about Prague, what about vaclav havel as a topic?
There is nothing interesting about him.
@@karelkrajicek6607 excuse me
Please, please do one about Raoul Wallenberg. He saved tens of thousands of jews in Budapest, with great risk to his own life. He even negotiated with Adolf Eichmann. Later, the Soviets arrested him because they thought he was a spy. And Russia has to this day refused to give any information about what happened to him. He is sadly not well known. It would be really awesome if you made a biographic about him.
Totally unrelated, but make a video African Zulu warrior Tshaka Zulu
That would be very interesting, I second that motion!
I would be interested in watching that too!.
Let me rock you, tshaka zulu
It would certainly be interesting to see the comment section.
Why would he do a video about someone no one has heard of a dot on history and as the Zulu had no written history and information on him could be false
Hi Sion, I really like your channels. Please let me give you some information on Czech roll in the WWII especial in betel of Britain. There was 2 Czech fighter squadron in RAF. One of the top fighter pilot of all betel of Britain with 17 kills was Czech pilot Josef František (he was flying with 303 polish squadron is host) There was 84 Czech pilot participating in the betel.
I can see this one touched you Simon. Understandibly so. Good job!
Watch Simon + during workout = brains and brawn.
Yet another cracking video. Well done Biographics!!! ❤ X x
Your closing statement of this video seems to well summarize this horrible person.
He is another fine example of how our choices set our destiny and in this case a whole lot of evil. While I think someone else would have stepped forward for the job, he ends up following a path of evil because of the way he dumped a girlfriend, which led to a job loss, which led to....
Your videos are informative, and entertaining. You would make a groovy history teacher.
You should add pictures and video clip of the massive funeral Hitler had for Heydrich
Thank you sir for posting this
I like your ending. Very well done.
It would be awesome if you please did a biography on Curly from the three stooges. I feel most funny big men, slapstick and basic humor can be traced back to him.
Id like to see them do one on all the stooges. They were great
Interesting way to end the video, I loved it.
A video on the forgotten 500 would be greatly appreciated
Nobody will believe this but I'll say it anyway. My great-grandfather made the suitcase that had the bomb in it. He obviously couldn't come out about that because he'd get shot. He made suitcases and luggage bags in prauge. He said when he saw the picture of the suitcase it was the one he made the previous week for some guy who paid him a lot of money for it. He died in the early to mid 80s or very late 70s before I was born. My Dad said he was told that story a couple times by both my grandparents and him. Interesting huh? I don't expect anyone to believe it but I still wanted to share anyway cause I never get a chance to talk about that. This guy never comes up in history class in the US so it's not something I was ever able to discuss in highschool.
I feel war history is important and enjoy your channel.
Thanks!
While I am a relatively new subscriber, I must say well put together sir. Well done
If anyone hasn't seen conspiracy I throughly recommend it!
Both the English and the original German version are QUITE chilling!
Rest in peace to a real hero!
@papa jala he stood for what he believed in and tried fighting Jewish supremacy
@@autumnparkblvd by killing innocent czechs ? that werent even jews.
Wasn’t He a pilot as well
He was,. And He had a lucky escape,. Coming down behind enemy lines but managed to get back unscathed. Hitler forbid him to fly thereafter, no doubt because he was invaluable to the Riech.
anthony donnelly that’s exactly why the Allies assassinated him, he was too effective
So happy have a new video thank you
In the technical museum of Prague there is a bulletproof Mercedes that was owned by the general who replaced heydrich, the convertibles were converted to bulletproof hard tops after this. They are some gorgeous Mercedes Benz cars with a horrendous ownership story
BTW, actor Christopher Lee was one of the hand-to-hand combat trainers who helped to prepare the Anthropoid team.
Another excellent video, guys!
thats not what i read happened after Reinhards' assassination... in the history books i've read, what happened in Lidice was EVERYONE was crammed in a large barn that was made of wood, and then the barn was set on fire all around... the men and boys of Lidice were not simply just shot.. and nobody from that village was sent to any concentration camps... what happened in Lidice was simply Hitler's revenge for Heydrich
Great video! Keep up the great work.
The story of this beast must be told to the end of time.
Y? He's not extraordinary
Excellent programme.
1 of your best!!!! Really interesting thankyou
Thank you for the video. I love your channel!
So you have heard of the Hangman. He actually hates his nickname. Now, why he would hate the nickname the Hangman is beyond me, he's practically done everything to earn it.
I have never heard of this man until today. Honestly really out did yourself on this bio! But then again I wouldn't expect any less from a man who lives in Prague! :)
@10:34 Fascist ducks are less succulent than their political counter-ducks.
I was going to make a joke about "stewing in their own juices" can't quite get there!
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Very nicely presented. Thank you for your very informative videos.
Well done video thank you
Simon I respect all your work. There are some mistakes and lack of a bigger picture in this video.
First big mistake is that the granade that hit heydrich didn't have shrapnels! It was a small bag of explosive material with detonator designed by British. What killed him was gangrene caused by pieces of his own uniform which contaminated the wounds! There was no immidient threat on his life after the attack. He died because there were no antibiotics in the Prague hospital at that moment.
Second mistake is the real reason why Heydrich was so hard on crushing the little czech resistance that was. He was certain that Wilhelm Canaris, head of Abwhera inteligence service was colaborating with the British. He established that Canaris was communicating through 3 leaders of czech resistance called "3 kings" Heydrich was convinced that by capturing them he will gather enough concrete evidence of treason by Canaris. The allies supported asssnation of heydrich in fear of deconspiring the colaboration between them and Canaris.
And with that comes my suggesion to make a video about the endless efford to kill hittler carried on by Wilhelm Canaris. Keep up the good work👍
Do Alex Jones
Juiced up the gills with super male vitality. Constantly Jack's off too tyranny porn. Whilst intergalactic shape-shifting kid raping vampires turn the frogs gay. Done.
It was Klaus Barbie who was the Butcher - "The Butcher of Lyon". Heydrich was "just" a Hangman. Nitpick, I know.
Stefan B. I believe he was referred to as the Butcher of Prague tho from time to time
@@stephenb.rossetti7400 Nicknames are so strange. So when did the Czechs settle on "Hangman" instead of alternating between it and "Butcher"? Klaus Barbie's crimes in France began after Heydrich's death. Thusly, is there a possibility people said "Yeah ok, Barbie is more of a butcher compared to Heydrich. So it's settled then? Heydrich is the hangman and Barbie the butcher?"
Sad.. its sad so many more had to die cause he was expelled.
Thinking about the SS really makes you think of how sick people are and makes you wonder how many people would abuse their powers like that today if they got the power these people had.
This video was fricken amazin
Perhaps a a video on Euler, Gauß, al-Battan, Alhazeni and the likes, might be a bit of a nice change? Important people for mathematics, engineering or science in general could be pretty interesting and many, many important mathematicians are way too little known!
I wish this channel existed when I was in undergrad!! Lol
Do not forget that Heidrichs septicemia spread because NO German doctor dared step in and take responsability for treating Heidrich. For the fear of becoming 'the doctor that could be suspected of not WANTING to save Heydrich' ....new lodgings curtesy of Gestapo etc.
Next time you do a German WW2 figure could we get Erich Von Manstein or Heinz Guderian please.
Resisting the urge to make a bomb's "Omae wa mou shindeiru" and Heydrich going "NANI!?" joke...Ooops, too late.
Excuse me? did you just claim the holocaust was the 20th century’s worst genocide? By what metric, surely not body count, it’s at least the fourth, possibly the fifth largest in the 20th century if your looking at body count.
Very unfair the remark that Polish had RAF pilots and suggesting Czechs did not have. Czech pilots in the ranks of RAF were among the most numerous of foreigner personnel in RAF. Making a number of aces.
Hitler: Flunks out of art school, becomes a Nazi
Heydrich: Excels in art school, becomes a Nazi anyway
We need one on Confucius
Do Robert Semple! Tank aficionado
How about a profile of … Max Manus. Curious to see how much of the movie was true to life and what he did after WW2.
It would be nice if you did an episode on Jean Bart, a French privateer that escape captivity in England and rowed across the Channel, among other things.
"Carrot and machine-gun tactics." You certainly have a way with words.
The sten jammed more often than it fired, no wonder Anthropoid almost failed
18:40 'National socialism' is still socialism, i.e, far-left. The Germans were only 'right-wing' from the perspective of communists.
True and it is the Communists, and their other Stalinist and Maoist-types who infest Western universities and bureaucracies who control the narrative and wrote the histories.
Just not true.
And the demonisation of universities perfectly echoes the persecution of intellectuals under the nazis and all dictators. Fear of free thinkers is a characteristic of all dictators.
@@archstanton6102 So national socialism isn't left-wing? Could you explain the doctrine of national socialism? Could you go over the economic policies of Germany during that time?
@DCM88 I have been under the impression that Germany during that time didn't have a right-wing authoritarian government (which seems to be considered a fact), but a left-wing one. I guess that's what I was going for. I don't think it was wrong to use those terms in this context.
I've heard some people say that national socialism is between capitalism and socialism or something like that. Would that be the third position? I don't really know myself. I think Hitler said something about the socialism part in in national socialism not being the same as marxian socialism, but something else that I can't remember now.
I know those terms aren't synonymous with socialist or capitalist. I don't understand why you even said that.
In my country, pretty much nobody refers to themselves as capitalist or socialist. It's just right- and left-wing in our little parliamentary republic.
This marks the first time I have been thought to be american lol. I don't even understand how you came to that conclusion, though.
I guess you said those things on the weird presumption that I'm an american. Though, I guess americans do use those terms that way. I dunno, words change meaning, get bastardized, that kinda thing. That's how it goes, I guess...
I'm not super knowledgeable about politics and history, or for that matter about anything really lol, for example the english language, so I like asking questions.
What an excellent description of one of the Nazi monsters. Many asked if his death was worth the carnage.
Thank you !
But Czechoslovaks were fighting hard in 1940, 41.. : 4 RAF squadrons (310th, 312th and 313th fighter, 311th bomber), czechoslovak 11th infantry battalion in the battle of Tobruk. Not to mention the intelligence streaming out of the protectorate.
I would learn about this guy from of places "metal gear solid" when I was younger!!!Then I use AOL to research him....Yes AOL dial up internet until my mom needs to use the phone.
Excellent...as usual.
How about king Sejong of Korea. He created the written Korean language of Hangul and invited other things
He brought new meaning to the term "evil monster." Very cold, perhaps even soulless eyes, like Stephen Miller, now squatting in our HIte House, who also has a Jewish background. Running from one's roots for no reason other than ambition and hatred, perhaps self-hatred.
Excellent video! Thanks guys!
You guys should do a video about Witold Pilecki, the Polish soldier who showed "balls of steel" by allowing himself to be sent to Auschwitz, created a resistance movement there, escaped, participated in the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, and was executed by post-war communists for his connections to the Polish government in exile.
A man who says, "I've been trying to live my life so that in the hour of my death I would rather feel joy, than fear" has got to have a story worth a video on this channel!
ive just got the book to read
During the Third Reich many people joked "Himmlers Hirn heißt Heydrich" (="Himmler´s brain is named Heydrich")
Hiter was supposedly even threatened by his exploits and intellect.