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CILLIAN MURPHY as Jozef Gabčík in Anthropoid (2016) | dir. Sean Ellis

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"Ask me about Lidice."

That phrase is a promise I made after researching the events I'm about to tell you, to keep the name of Lidice alive and meaningful.

Here is the story.

In the summer and fall of 1942, a strange phenomenon began springing up in distant corners of the world, in which streets, towns, even children, were being given the same name.

It all began with the killing of a monster.

At the end of December in 1941, two Czech soldiers living in exile in England parachuted back into Czechoslovakia on a mission to assassinate the ruthless and brutal German SS officer Reinhard Heydrich, who was then working as the Reich-Protector over much of that occupied country.

During his reign of terror, Heydrich - one of the main architects of the Final Solution, and nicknamed "The Butcher of Prague" - kept the "peace" through racial suppression, forced labor, executions, and sending "undesirables" off to death camps.

In May of 1942, a team led by the two parachutists, named Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabčík, planned and carried out an ambush against Heydrich as he drove in his open-topped car through Prague.

Wounded by an explosive hurled at the car, Heydrich died a week later.

In the aftermath of the attack, Kubiš and Gabčík, along with most of their co-conspirators, were killed.

When he learned of Heydrich's death, Adolf Hitler flew into a rage and ordered massive reprisals against the Czech people.

Because of spurious intelligence reports, the full force of Hitler's anger fell chiefly upon two small villages: Lidice (pronounced "Li-dí-tsay") and Ležáky (pronounced "Le-zyah-ke").

Two days after Heydrich's funeral, German SS and SD troops descended upon the two towns.

In Ležáky, no adult was left alive, the children were seized, and the houses and buildings were burned to the ground.

In Lidice, the population was dragged from their homes, and every male over the age of fourteen was shot and killed - at first five at a time, but when this was found to be taking too long, they killed them in groups of ten.

The women were deported to concentration camps for forced labor or extermination.

Those few children who met specified "racial purity" criteria were sent to Germany for indoctrination and adoption by the families of members of the SS.

Most of the rest of the children were killed in the backs of special enclosed trucks by carbon monoxide, the precursors to the gas chambers later installed at places such as Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Then Lidice suffered an additional horror. Believed (erroneously) to be the town where some of the conspirators had been hiding before the assassination, the town was burned, and stone structures were dynamited.

Slave labor was brought in to dismantle the ruins brick by brick and haul everything away, so that, as Hitler ordered, every trace of the town was wiped from the face of the earth so that the memory of Lidice would die.

But it didn't.

The Nazis allowed reports of the massacre to be released as a warning to other occupied countries, but as the news began spreading around the world, it had quite the opposite effect....

In Mexico, the village of San Jerónimo Aculo changed its name to San Jerónimo Lídice....

In Coventry, England, a shopping market was renamed Lidice Place....

In the American state of Illinois, a new town being laid out was named Lidice....

Also in Illinois, the American lawyer and politician Wendell Wilkie eulogized the destruction of the town to a silent, stunned audience, using the news reports from the Nazis themselves to condemn their barbarity....

In the United Kingdom, the Lidice Shall Live! drive - run mostly by British miners - raised money to help rebuild the town following the war....

In places all over the free world the name Lidice began appearing, and hundreds of children born that year were named Lidice by their parents, and the name continues to be given even to this day.

What the Nazis hoped would be a warning to their enemies turned into a rallying cry, and helped show a world still mostly ignorant of Nazi brutality why the fight against the Third Reich was so necessary.

When the war ended, a handful of women and children who survived the concentration camps returned to the site where Lidice had been, and, with international help, began rebuilding the town on a site nearby.

Today there is a memorial near the town dedicated to the children who suffered and were lost during the Nazi occupation. There also is a larger memorial to the annihilation of the town and the murder of its people. And there's even another memorial placed in gratitude to the British miners who helped the town rebuild.

In 1942, with so many major events grabbing headlines, that the world took notice of the destruction of one tiny town that nobody had ever heard of was a miracle. Yet after the war, what happened in Lidice largely dissolved from the world's memory as Czechoslovakia fell behind the Iron Curtain.

But now that's changing.

As part of the Unearthed Project, people all over the world are being asked to spread the memory of what happened to Lidice in 1942, and of the kindness and generosity through which the town was rebuilt, by promising to tell at least two people the story....

When I first heard about this project and what they were asking, I knew I could do better than just telling two people - this page reaches around 7 million people each month, so by writing this post I am fulfilling my promise to share, and then some. It's my honor to be able to do so.

Now I'm asking you to make and fulfill that same promise, as well, to tell at least two people this story, so we can honor the memory of the victims of Lidice and Ležáky: the men and teens who were shot, the children who were gassed, the women who perished in death camps, and the caring hearts of all those around the world who vowed never to let them be forgotten.

~*~

All told, around 1,300 people were killed by the Nazis in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.

His grave in Berlin has been unmarked since the Soviet occupation.

Historia Obscurum

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Cillian Murphy as Jozef Gabčík in Anthropoid (2016)

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2022 was the 80th Anniversary of Operation Anthropoid, the assassination on Reinheid Heydrich, the then-governor of occupied Czechoslovakia, who is considered by many to be one of the principal architects of the Holocaust. The assassination was carried out on 27th May 1942 by Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš, who later hid here, The Saints Cyril and Methodius Cathedral, where they and their accomplices were discovered on the 18th June. Their discovery led to a six hour long gun battle, during which time the basement they were hiding is was flooded. Rather than allowing themselves to be captured by Nazi forces, they committed suicide. The Saints Cyril and Methodius Cathedral. Somebody had left flowers besides the bullet holes in the wall. Inside the Cathedral crypt  there is a small exhibition about the assassination and its after effects, which is dedicated to the men who died there. 

The Saints Cyril and Methodius Cathedral, Prague, 2022

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Ceremonial Hall of the Ďáblice Cemetery, Prague

The Ďáblice Cemetery, a national cultural monument built in 1912-1914 according to the design of architect Vlastislav Hofman, is the only cubist cemetery in the world. As well as single and family graves there are about 70 mass graves containing bodies of over 14,000 people in total. Since 1943, Czech people executed by Nazis or killed while fighting Nazis were buried there; since 1945 executed Nazi criminals and since 1948 people who were executed or died tortured in communist prisons. Among others, participants of the anti-Nazi resistance Jozef Gabčík, Jan Kubiš and Václav Morávek are buried here, as well as the Catholic priest Josef Toufar, who was martyred by the communist secret police.

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Btw, today’s the 80th anniversary of Operation Anthropoid or as I like to call it the “Unproblematic Good Boi Day” or “Be the only ones to ever successfully yeet a high-ranking Nazi official and have him be one of the architects of the Holocaust to boot”—the assassination of the Reichprotektor and Hitler’s close ally Reinhard Heydrich by Czechoslovak operatives Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš who parachuted to the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia from their exile in the UK and devised a plan which led to a failed shooting and then a semi-successful bombing of Heydrich’s car which in turn led to Heydrich dying a painful death in a Prague hospital for a week which resulted in a vengeful extermination of two villages and a wave of Nazi-conducted tortures and extrajudicial murders sweeping over Prague in order to sus out the partisans who ended up betrayed by one of their own and died during a shootout with Nazis in a Prague church which, FINALLY, led the Brits to realize that maybe gleefully handing Czechoslovakia over to Hitler wasn’t the best idea they ever had and maybe the low level of Czech resistance up until that point wasn’t a result of us being buddy-buddy with Nazis, proving once and for all that when it comes to finding allies who aren’t complete idiots, there are just no good options for Eastern Europeans to be had.

Anyway, celebrate the good bois.

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Operation Anthropoid – Film HD (2016)

Originaltitel: Anthropoid

Operation Anthropoid ist ein Drama und ein Kriegsfilm

In Operation Anthropoid begeben sich die Soldaten Gabčík und Kubiš 1941 auf eine geheime Mission, um den Kopf der SS Reinhard Heydrich auszuschalten.

Inhalt von Operation Anthropoid

Operation Anthropoid war der Codename für das Attentat auf Reinhard Heydrich am 27. Mai 1942 in Prag.

Dies sowie das Attentat auf den SS-Hauptsturmführer August Gölzer waren die zwei einzigen erfolgreichen Anschläge auf führende Nationalsozialisten in der deutsch besetzten Tschechoslowakei.

Jan Kubiš und Jozef Gabčík, zwei Unteroffiziere der tschechoslowakischen Exilarmee waren im Rahmen einer Kommandoaktion aus England in ihre Heimat eingeschleust worden, um Heydrich zu töten...

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Hoy es el aniversario de la muerte de esos héroes paracaidistas checoslovacos que asesinaron al Reichsprotektor imperial Reinhard Heydrich. Tras librar una batalla desigual con los nazis alemanes en la cripta de la Iglesia de los Santos Cirilo y Metodio, situada en la calle Resslova. ¡Somos checos! Nunca nos rendiremos, ¿oíste? ¡Nunca! Estas son las últimas palabras de los héroes que atentaron contra Reinhard Heydrich. El logro de la Operación Anthropoid contra Reinhard Heydrich el 27 de mayo de 1942, supuso la irá de Hitler uno días después. Ya que al principio el atentado no pareció tener éxito, porque Heydrich se recuperó rápidamente en el hospital en los siguientes días. Pero luego surgieron complicaciones inesperadas y Heydrich murió el 4 de junio de 1942. Los alemanes no pudieron obtener ninguna pista durante mucho tiempo de quienes habían sido los que cometieron el atentado. Gradualmente, revisaron varios cientos de informes y interrogaron a una gran cantidad de personas, pero no condujo a nada. Solo cuando uno de los paracaidistas del grupo Distancia de Salida, Karel Čurda, traicionó a las personas que sabían dónde se ocultaban los paracaidistas de la Operación Anthropoid, pudieron dar con ellos. La batalla en la Iglesia de San Cirilo y Metodio Concretamente delató a siete valientes, Jozef Gabčík, Jan Kubiš, Josef Valčík, Adolf Opálka, Josef Bublík, Jan Hrubý y Jaroslav Švarc. Siete hombres que estaban escondidos en la cripta de la Iglesia de los Santos Cirilo y Metodio en la calle Resslova. Y quienes finalmente libraron una lucha desigual contra miembros de las SS y de la Gestapo el 18 de junio de 1942. Los datos contemporáneos nos dicen que estos siete hombres lucharon con ochocientos nazis alemanes. Toda la pelea duró siete horas y costó la vida a todos los paracaidistas checoslovacos. En la primera fase del combate, tres paracaidistas protegieron el coro de la iglesia, lo que hicieron durante casi dos horas. La siguiente fase final de la pelea fue la batalla por la cripta, donde estaban los cuatro paracaidistas restantes. Los checoslovacos lograron defenderse durante siete horas, desafortunadamente, su lucha fue en vano. ¡Somos checos! Nunca nos rendiremos, ¿oíste? ¡Nunca! Pero gracias a ellos, posiblemente la República Checa hoy en el aniversario de los héroes que acabaron con Heydrich, no está dentro de las fronteras de Munich. Pese a que hay muchas las voces que critican su acción. Especialmente dado el elevado número de víctimas de la represión alemana, aunque su papel histórico es incuestionable.

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‘The radio said 20,000 SS troops have been drafted in to look for us. I need to get my family out of Prague.’

‘No one is going anywhere, Čurda. You try and run now and they will pick you up before you reach the city limits. You go home to your family, you stay calm, you shut your mouth. You think you can do that?... We failed, Čurda. We failed.’

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Charisma 🙈🖤

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The man who knows how to smoke

Cillian Murphy as Jozef Gabčík in Anthropoid (2016)

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Cillian Murphy as Jozef Gabčík

Anthropoid [Dir. Sean Ellis]

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Church of St Cyril and St Methodious, Prague, Czech Republic.

On this day in 1942 Adolf Opálka, Josef Bublík, Jozef Gabčík, Jan Hrubý, Jan Kubiš, Josef Valčík, and Jaroslav Švarc were found hiding in the crypt of Church of St Cyril and St Methodious in Prague. They had been responsible for Operation Anthropoid, the assassination plot against Reinhard Heydrich. None of them survived.

Today the crypt, still pocked with bullet holes, serves as a memorial.

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