Heydrich's car after a bomb strike |
Kimmo Huosionmaa
“Operation Anthropoid” was SOE:s (Service Operation Executive) operation to murder the chief of SS- and police Reinhard Heydrich (1904-1942) in 1942. That operation staff was two Czechoslovakian resistance men Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš. That strike was made with modified hand grenades, what was thrown under Reinhard Heydrich Mercedes. Some people think that some of those FAE-grenades were also put some botulinum toxin, but those are only rumors. But here I must say that this kind of operation is quite unusual, and then it would be interesting to know, what made Reinhard Heydrich so important, that this particular man must be eliminated.
In the Second World War SOE made two other plan to murder leading Nazi-officials. In 1944 SOE:s headquarters in London two other elimination plans, another was “Operation Foxley”, what was attempted to murder Adolf Hitler, and third was “Operation Kutschera”, what was targeted against the chief of police Franz Kutschera. Second of those actions was made by Polish resistance, and even “Operation Foxley” was something like unnecessary action. The reason what made those operations so the suspect was that happened not until 1944. In my personal opinion is that those operations must be done just beginning of the war.
Reinhard Heydrich (1904-1942) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Anthropoid
So here my personal thinking starts to ring itself and I must ask, why Reinhard Heydrich was the man, who was assassinated by British intelligence? He was SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei und Waffen-SS, but what made him different than his successor Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner, who was mentioned as the most feared man in the Third Reich. Many people thought that Reinhard Heydrich would be the successor of Adolf Hitler, but why this operation was accomplished, and there is much mysticism around this operation. How did one British Stirling bomber could flight across occupied Europe, without fear of shooting down?
That plane carried those strikers to Czechoslovakia from the Great Britain, and nobody ever noticed it, and if that plane would shoot down, the plan would be uncovered. Or maybe “Operation Anthropoid” wouldn’t uncover, but German police would know that those men were in Czechoslovakia, and this is one great mystery of the SOE. That mystery is, how this intelligence service could ever imagine, that German night fighters ever drop a single airplane. Even if Germans wouldn’t get information about the agents, the routine patrolling night fighters could easily drop those alone flying bombers. So why those drops were in so big role.
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