83 years ago today, seven brave Czechoslovakian resistance fighters died after successfully assassinating the man who was one of the principal architects of the Holocaust.
(Edit : changed from m.wikipedia link to a normal link)
A pyrrhic victory. 5000 dead, two villages razed. Damn.
Yeah the retaliation was brutal.
The movie was absolutely incredible. I highly recommend Anthropoid to everyone. It’s not for the faint of heart.
I enjoy your enthusiasm but
I highly recommend […] to everyone
and
It’s not for the faint of heart.
are a bold choice of juxtaposed sentences.
Haha, fair. What I mean is that I highly recommend it to anyone who could stomach such an intense topic!
For the more literally inclined: Laurent Binets HHhH (an acronym for ‘Himmler’s Horn heisst Heydrich’ (Hitler’s brain is named Heydrich))
it’s been made into film as ‘the man with the iron heart’.
