Operaciгіn — Anthropoid
The Nazi retaliation was swift and monstrous. Martial law was declared. The villages of Lidice and Ležáky were wiped off the map, their residents murdered or sent to concentration camps.
The world seemed to freeze. Heydrich, instead of ordering his driver to speed away, stood up and drew his pistol. In that desperate second, Kubiš acted. He hurled a modified anti-tank grenade at the vehicle. The explosion rocked the street, shrapnel tearing into the car and Heydrich’s side. OperaciГіn Anthropoid
The silence of the Bohemian night was shattered only by the whistling wind as Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš tumbled from the belly of a British Halifax bomber. It was December 1941. Below them lay the occupied Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, a land suffocating under the iron grip of the man known as the Butcher of Prague: Reinhard Heydrich. The Nazi retaliation was swift and monstrous


