Following the assassination Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich
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Following the assassination Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich
Following the assassination Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich
The bodies of Czech paratroopers Josef Bublík, Adolf Opálka, Jozef Gabčík, Jaroslav Švarc, Jan Hruby and Josef Valčík lie in the street at the junction of Resslova Street and Václavská Street outside St Cyril's and Methodius Church in Prague where seven of them, including Jan Kubís who died on the way to hospital, fought a four hour battle with the Waffen SS after the paratroopers were betrayed by one of their own, Karel Čurda, and their hideout found.
Čurda was there to identify the bodies.
The priest who sheltered them, Father Petřek, was shot and his parents murdered in Auschwitz.
Karl Hermann Frank stands with his hand to his mouth. He was Heydrich's second in command in Prague and it was he who ordered the villages of Lidice and Ležáky to be wiped out as retribution.
He was hung in Prague in 1947 for treason.
Note the small plaques built into the pavement in the now shot. Each one bears the name of one of the parachutists.
18 June 1942 - April 2023
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