Heydrich assassination revisited

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Berlin relives assassination of top Nazi in Prague

Staff and agencies
11 January, 2006


By Louis Charbonneau 1 hour, 29 minutes ago

BERLIN - More than 60 years ago, a group of Czech and Slovak exiles parachuted into their Nazi-occupied homeland and assassinated SS-Obergruppenfuehrer Reinhard Heydrich, the man known as the "Butcher of Prague."

For the first time since the end of the World War Two, a German museum is offering a close look at "Operation Anthropoid," the codename for the only successful assassination of a member of Adolf Hitler‘s inner circle.

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