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Reinhard Heydrich: Prague Castle
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In 1942, Reinhard Heydrich, the Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia, was on his way to work in Prague when his car was attacked by two Czech resistance fighters. Heydrich was mortally wounded and died in hospital.
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Reinhard Heydrich, known as the Butcher of Prague, was ambushed as he drove to his office at Prague Castle by two Czechoslovak soldiers who had parachuted into the country the previous December. Heydrich died eight days later of injuries sustained during the attack. One of the exhibitions marking the event is located in the garden by Malostranska metro station, and features newspaper cuttings and other documents from that era. The opening of the exhibition was attended by nearly half the Czech cabinet and met with the approval of the prime minster, Milos Zeman.
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Reinhard Heydrich, the feared chief of the Main Office of Reich Security and deputy governor of the „Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia“, dies on 4June1942 of injuries sustained in an assassination attempt against him. The assassins, who were cornered in a church by the SS and killed in a gun fight, had received their assignment from the Czech exile government in London. In retaliation for the murder of Heydrich the Czech village of Lidice near Prague is destroyed by the SS. All male inhabitants over 15years of age are shot to death, and the women and children are carried off to concentration camps.
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}If anyone warranted assassination during World War II, the man to know was Reinhard Heydrich (19041942)chief of the security police, rabid anti-Semite, architect of the Final Solution, ruthless overlord of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, and Hitler's most likely successor. In 1941, at the height of the Nazi's seeming invincibility, the Czech government-in-exile launched a desperate operation to kill Heydrich. From the assassins' training in England to their Thermopylae-like last stand in the flooded crypt of a Prague church, and the Nazi's savage reprisals (including the obliteration of two villages), The Killing of Reinhard Heydrich brilliantly recounts one of World War II's most daring and tragic missions.
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The realization is necessary in order to comprehend the political work that a man of military and musicla bend starts in Prague, but can not finish: Reinhard Heydrich. Er immediately recognized his goal: to positively direct the will of the inhabitants of the Boemian-Moravian region to the Reich idea. His creative instinct simultaneously the path and the means as well. Since every political will-formation is somehow bound to legacy, he studied the region’s history and found in the mission of the Bohemian King Wenzel the historical basis for the new Reich idea. At the same time he saw in Palacky’s hate-distorted view of history that hostile cell that had spread its seductive and dangerously poisonous spores under Bensch in the twenty years after the First World War. There could be no doubt about the foggy effect of the narcotics that had flourished in the msot recent past influenced by Palackey.
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