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Didn’t do the Czechs much good. The hit was ordered by the government in exile in London [the Brits thought the Czechs weren’t doing enough], and the assasins were flown in. Aside from Lidice and a lot of dead Czech civilians, the principal accomplishment of Operation anthropoid was the almost total destruction of the Czech Resistance in Czechoslavakia.

Didn’t do the Czechs much good.
The Brits were very dismayed when the last of the group surrendered who may have collaboeated then executed ..It became a matter of trust with the Brits and possibly be why (as well as the strong pro Russian communist sympathys whom they didn’t trust) the only way one would know is look at the records which exist ...Plus logistics aircraft had great difficulty getting there.

One must understand the differences between the slavic groups in these amalgamated nations which Hitler did. The Czechs vs the Slovak, the Serbs vs Hervat (Croations) which he exploited. Today they are seperate identities which they allways considered they were.

One could even see what happened with the Saarland which went back to Germany after a post war plebicite at the same count 99%. I love the argument historians put up with this one .That if France moved militarilly into it that would have stopped Hitler. French knew they would lose but they kept Strassbourg and Alsass.

As far as Heydrich is concerned he was aware of the history of the place and the fact that Prague was the last seat of Roman Empire during which time one of its rulers created the Prussian capital of Koenigsberg. And conducted his court in that fashion. He encouraged classical music but excluded one piece, Smetana’s Die Mouldau. But a butcher Heydrich was.

There is a film recreation of the Heydrich episode that was I believe produced by the BBC but I can’t recall the title .

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