- Atentát (film)
"Atentát" is a 1964 black-and-white Czech film directed by
Jiří Sequens . TheWorld War II story depicts events before and after the assassination of top German leaderReinhard Heydrich inPrague (Operation Anthropoid ).ynopsis
On
September 27 1941 , Reinhard Heydrich, one of the most feared top officials of theNazi Party , an architect ofthe Holocaust andHitler 's possible successor, is appointed "Reichsprotektor" of Bohemia and Moravia. As a result of his brutality and oppression he is also called "The Butcher of Prague" or "The Blond Beast".A squad of agents is selected, trained and then parachuted into
Czechoslovakia . The team operated in Prague and planned the attack for about six months. The mission is successfully executed in the capital onMay 27 1942 by means of an ambush, but almost fails at a crucial moment when one of theirSten guns jams and they are obliged to use a grenade instead. Heydrich eventually succumbs to his wounds, but during the frenzied aftermath, the group is betrayed by one of its members and they are cornered in a church crypt in Prague. In the gun-battle that follows, all but two of the agents are killed. The remaining ones commit suicide. The German high command takes savage reprisals, including the massacre of 340 men, women and children from the village ofLidice and the razing of the village.ee also
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Operation Anthropoid
*Reinhard Heydrich External links
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