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On a quiet spring morning in 1942, a German staff car turned onto an ordinary street in Nazi-occupied Prague. Inside was one of the Third Reich’s most feared men, a figure so brutal the Czech people called him “the Butcher”. What he didn’t know was that just ahead of him, weapons hidden beneath their coats, a handful of assassins lay in wait. They had trained for months for this moment, knowing that once they acted, there would be no turning back. But how did they come to be standing on that street? What unfolded in the seconds that followed, and how far would the consequences reach? Using rare Gestapo and SS reports documenting those events in meticulous detail, along with eyewitness testimony and modern technology, we’ll investigate, moment-by-moment, the story of Operation Anthropoid: The assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.

I really like this channel. They're a 20th century war historian who puts a lot of emphasis on adding context to images and geolocating them to show how the landscape influenced the battle.

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[-] segfault11@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago

Nazcels seething from being praggued by Czad Anthropoid

[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 6 days ago

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