ATENTÁT (The Assassination, 1964) - Battle in the Church

[sejferin]

CZECH AND SLOVAK FOREVER

[SpeedMolotowOwa]

fuck off nazzi bastards

[maximuslaurius]

One of the best war films ever made imo.

I'm happy that at least they could die like soldiers and not face torture and the death camps.

[Sparksaty]

@WorldWartimeSStories He was surely surprised too. Such a cheek, to kill HIS MAJESTY king Reinhard III. of SS.

[svoba4af]

@Sparksaty Už dlouho jsem se tak nanasmála jako u "HIS MAJESTY king Reinhard III. of SS". :D

[PalatHar]

nahoře na kúru byli Kubiš, Opálka a Švarc

[1horseman]

I visited the crypt and was really moved ..The real magnificent 7 ..held against a SS battalion..

[JP35BLUE]

There should be memorial to Kubis and Gabcik in every European city,people like them died for freedom, they are true heroes of Europe, im proud to have had the Czechs as allies - i hope that dog Curda, enjoyed his blood money, right up until they streched his dirty neck

[magiclard]

My Granddad trained for Daybreak and broke his leg in the practice jump in Dumfries. Opalka Kubis close friends left their personal effects with him. He took part later in the D Day invasions and sneaked up on tanks dropping grenades down the barrels of panzers at night, He was a great man, He was decorated by Churchill and Montgomery.

[EasyCompanyAirborne]

magic. I normally do not have a high opinion of the English, but would agree that your grandfather would be a credit to any army. I have jumped out of planes mysellf, and it is a matter of luck as to whether or not you break something (preferably not your neck). I must say that I could never have done what your grandfather did - for one thing "meine Deutschkenntnisse ist nicht so gut". :(

[magiclard]

Thats Easy OK Im half Irish, half Czech. My Granddad only needed to speak Czech as that is where he was from, so no problem with klanguage. All the mission men were Czech. Im not sure that my Grandpa knew German, but he was from near the German border, the part the nazis annexed when the yinvaded Sudetenland. I have his passport with all the false stamps. His Britain stamp was one day off expiry when War was declared. He helped form the Czech Free Army in England. Im very proud of him.

[EasyCompanyAirborne]

magiclard. I have absolutely no doubt that your story is completely true. You are quite correct that Czech people were involved in this mission. I have not seen the film ATENTÁT, but have seen the film Operation Daybreak, which is one of my favorite films. I think you have every right to be proud of your Grandfather. They don't come much braver.

[magiclard]

Its funny now to imagine him being there if he hadnt broken his leg in the last practise, Easy. All I have now are the photos of Granddad Josef, Josef Gabcik, Jan Kubis. The rest of the stuff, I gave to the Czech embassy. The look on the military attaches face was something else. He sent my then dying Grandma, an open invitation to the embassy. She said no, you go. I found all the fighting manuals scattered in my Dads shed. (ungrateful children) I remember and I always will.

[MsGreyling]

I'm glad you are here to remember now. It was so important. This single event made so much difference.

[magiclard]

Hi Ms Grayling I have the photos if you wish to see them perhaps you can identify. Or anyone, please pm me. I have them all on my disc. They would be of special interest to anyone who knows of Anthropoid. They were tiny pics originally, but they have come up lovely. Heydrich would thank his lucky stars he never met Grandma, she would have knocked him into the middle of the next century with her fists. She was so proud of Josef.

[Mysicca]

@magiclard:  Hi, can I ask you what photos are you writing about? I would love to see any other pictures of Josef and Jan.

[historicrecord]

In memory of the 7 courageous Czechs who gave their lives to help rid the World of Nazi tyranny and free Europe.

[boudiSVK]

@historicrecord

Czechoslovaks

[historicrecord]

@boudiSVK Yes- You're absolutely right- Czechoslovaks-

& the Slovaks who died during the Slovak rising of 1944

[BrothuhRabbit]

I was lookin' for some scenes from "Daybreak" which I had seen part of, but this is good too. I read up a little on the actual events, the aftermath, the retaliation against the village. What most captured my attention about "Daybreak" was the shootout in the cathedral/ church. If you've got to go, this is the way to do it, with your boots on, a blaze of glory, a hail of lead, all guns blazing, take a couple of 'em with you.

[miamahoney]

Maybe the same :-).

[rolad]

Great scene! I love this movie. It's so intense.

[baltasvilkas]

What's your point?

[baltasvilkas]

Eternal honor to the seven courageous Czech parachutists who gave their lives to help liberate their homeland and Europe from Nazi tyranny. Each time I am in Prague I visit their memorial at the Church of St Cyril and Methodius on Resslova Street.

For those who cherish freedom from Soviet oppression, see the video: Songs of Freedom "Alytė" and others posted by DamKimPhilby.

Vítáme všechny česky vlastenci z Litvy a Amerikou!

[morecoje]

hey baltasvilkas no only czech parasutist,ä..it was czecho.slovak operation....half of team where czechs..

[Pengwag]

me as well, when im In Prauge I also go to St Cyrils's church to pay homage to the bravery of these Czech parachutists and to the resistance movement.

We salute you.

[Mirinovic]

hrdly that vilidge be destroyd by nazi

[JoeMomma2002]

It wasn't about about Heydrich though.

It was about the wansee conference.

[tubelogin1]

can you expand on this? wansee took place before this, so what's the link there? what were brits seeking here?

[centrum99]

Look west of Prague, near KLadno. But you must have a very detailed map.

[JoeMomma2002]

English version.

Americans didn't produce a film on Heydrich.

[B3ND0G]

It takes nations of billions to hold the germans down.

[yaknbo]

Long live the memory of Gabcik and Kubis. Heydrich was a pervert who was cashiered out of the Kriegsmarine. He was a shnitzel-eating murderous pig. And, he wasn't gunned down ya ignoramus. He died from upholstery fibres. The pussy was "killed by a couch".

G O O D.

Svobodu!!!!!

[wsmith68]

Fuck Heydrich.  Und ficks du auch!

[Al88CZ]

...Yet another damn "keyboard commando" You will never be so much as half a man compared to those 7 czechs who laid down everything for thier country. Heydrich was filth and so died like filth. Im only sorry that the Czechs stood down in 38, would have been nice to blow those teutons away in the bohemian forests.

[flagday84]

Watch my film on the matter. I just put it on youtube(click on my screen name). I have found this subject facsinating for years and decided to make a film about it for a class. I know the woman that is interviewed in the film, she is the widow of the man who trained the men to kill Heydrich, and the person who first got me interested in the story

[centrum99]

Judging from the fact that the rest of the parachutists was performed by Czech actors, I would say that they didn't get too much place in the movie and it almost entirely concentrated on the figures of Gabcik and Kubis.

As for Curda, he is a controversial person. After the assasination he harboured at his mother in south Bohemia and the consequences (including the annihilation of Lidice) terrified him.

[centrum99]

He sent an anonymous letter with the assasins' names to a nearby police station, but the policemen didn't take it seriously. Then he read that the Nazis would give an amnesty to the assasins' collaborators, if they contribute to their capture. On 16 June he thus went to Prague. At first he visited a family at a Prague "refuge address", asking for help and wanting to know the hiding place of his colleagues. Yet he was refused, because the people were afraid.

[centrum99]

Subsequently he headed to the Gestapo. During the following interrogation, he unsuccessfully tried to commit suicide, but then he told everything he knew... Which was enough to cause a massive net reaction, during which virtually all collaborators of the assasins and other resistance members (more than 300 people) were arrested and executed.

[centrum99]

I wouldn't want to speculate about his motives, because I haven't studied this topic in detail enough, but I know that when he was questioned after the war, why he did it, he told the judge: "You would do it because of 1 million mark, too, sir." The truth is that during the war he actively collaborated with the Nazis as an agent and thanks to him, many resistance members and parachutists were arrested and/or killed. His betrayal was actually revealed as late as in 1945.

[magiclard]

My Grandad said if he had been there, he felt he could have held the team together.  See above

[SIMON8958]

I have shared your interest also for years Howard. Try to go and see the crypt in Prague if you havent already.

[centrum99]

In fact, the actual depiction of the assasination in this movie is not too detailed; for example, the authors completely ignore the gunfight between Heydrich's driver Klein and Gabcik that followed the assasination (and is probably - at least partly - depicted in OPERATION DAYBREAK), but that was probably done because of dramaturgic reasons.

[centrum99]

I posted another clip (BATTLE IN THE CRYPT).

I will try to find another interesting sequences, but reckon with that they will have long passages in Czech language.

[kokpit]

This is great, thank you! Would be possible to post also other parts of this film?