Anthropoid

[Bob Lee (QSC)]

Great new movie. It's about the 1942 secret mission ordered by the Czechoslovakian government in exile in London to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, the ruthless "Butcher of Prague" and widely regarded as the architect of the so-called "Final Solution." It was carried out by Czech soldiers-in-exile who were parachuted in and assisted by the remnants of the Czechoslovakian Resistance.

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[Ironbar]

I thought Adolph Eichmann was the author of the "final solution."

 

[Downunderwonder]

Not very catchy for the title. 'A few good men' was taken but surely...

 

[Handyman]

Wow, I've somehow never heard of this story. Wild stuff.

Hope I can catch this in the theater, I'm a sucker for this type of film.

 

[Bob Lee (QSC)]

Wow, I've somehow never heard of this story. Wild stuff.

Hope I can catch this in the theater, I'm a sucker for this type of film.

i was only vaguely familiar with this operation, but I had read about the Polish Underground's assassinations of numerous Nazi officials, though none as high as Heydrich.

 

[the harp unstrung]

This is one that I've been wanting to see since seeing the trailer the first time!
As a wise man once said:"I'm aa sucker for this type of film."

 

[ddnidd1]

I thought Adolph Eichmann was the author of the "final solution."

His task was to make it happen.

 

[ShoeManiac]

I thought Adolph Eichmann was the author of the "final solution."

Eichmann was a subordinate of Heidrich. To get a sense of them both check out the HBO film Invalid Link Removed. It's about a meeting of various German officials who ruthlessly planned the holocaust.

 

[One Drop]

Thanks for the heads up!

 

[ShoeManiac]

Conspiracy really was a creepy sort of movie. Because it's set in this beautiful chateau that has all the trappings of a sophisticated European nobility. The conversations are very much like those of people in government... until they get to the gruesome reality of what the're really proposing. And the matter of fact fashion in which these war criminals discuss the "final solution" makes it disturbing to behold.

 

[Bob Lee (QSC)]

Heydrich was so confident that he'd made Prague secure for the German occupation that he rode between his residence and his office at the Prague Castle in an open convertible. Sometimes his vehicle was followed by guards in an armored car, but sometimes not.

The Nazis adopted a policy of extreme retribution for any attempted attacks on themselves. In the film, some of the Czech resistance fighters are very worried about what revenge might be carried out against their people. Indeed, after the attack on Heydrich, they wiped out several Czech villages. Still, the assassination of such a high Nazi official showed that even they were not necessarily out of reach of the resistance and partizan fighters.

 

[ddnidd1]

Nazi massacres of civilian populations (not counting the concentration camps) were actually commonplace.

 

[Bob Lee (QSC)]

Nazi massacres of civilian populations (not counting the concentration camps) were actually commonplace.

Yes, that's why the Polish Underground leaders decided to attack and sabotage the German occupiers and their collaborators at any opportunity despite the warnings of retribution. As described in Jan Karski's book Story of a Secret State, they figured these massacres would be carried out anyway, and so they had to fight back.

 

[ddnidd1]

Yes, that's why the Polish Underground leaders decided to attack and sabotage the German occupiers and their collaborators at any opportunity despite the warnings of retribution. As described in Jan Karski's book Story of a Secret State, they figured these massacres would be carried out anyway, and so they had to fight back.

They also carried out massacres in many other countries as well.

 

[Bob Lee (QSC)]

They also carried out massacres in many other countries as well.

Yes, they did.
The Polish Underground operated primarily in Poland, though.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

On a side note as far as I remember the highest scoring allied ace of the Battle of Britain was Czech, and we are grateful for his service and that of all the other nations, domestic and otherwise.