The killing of SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich
By: Callum MacDonald.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Heydrich, Reinhard, 1904-1942 -- Assassination; Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel -- Biography; World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Czechoslovakia; Nazis -- Biography; Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945
Description: It has been said that if responsibility for the Nazi camps can be laid at the feet of any one man, that man is Reinhard Heydrich. This book describes "Operation Anthropoid"--The Czech plan to assassinate Heydrich in 1942. Retribution for his violent death included several thousand executions and two villages being razed to the ground. Based on previously untouched archive material and interviews with surviving members of SOE and Czech military intelligence, this is an account of the motives for killing Heydrich, the course of the plan to execute him and how his killers were tracked down.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [213]-215.
Includes index.