Ambush scene of Operation Daybreak.
'Operation Daybreak' is a 1975 World War II film based on the true story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague.
In London, the Czechoslovak government in exile (Prozatímní státní zřízení) was plotting to assassinate Heydrich. Two men specially trained by the British SOE or Special Operations Executive, Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabčík, were chosen for the operation. After receiving training from the British, they returned by parachute in December, dropped from a Halifax of 138 Squadron RAF.
On 27 May 1942, Heydrich was scheduled to attend a meeting with Hitler in Berlin. Heydrich would have to pass a section where the Dresden-Prague road merged with a road leading to the Troja Bridge. That intersection was a perfect spot for the attack because Heydrich's car would have to slow down to make a hairpin turn. The attack was, therefore, scheduled for 27 May. On that date, Heydrich was ambushed while he rode in his open car in the Prague suburb of Kobylisy. As the car slowed to take the hairpin bend in the road, Gabčík took aim with a Sten sub-machine gun, but it failed to fire. At that very moment, instead of ordering his driver to speed away, Heydrich called his car to a halt in an attempt to take on the two attackers. Kubiš then immediately threw a bomb (a converted anti-tank mine) at the rear of the car. The explosion wounded Heydrich and also Kubiš himself.
It is alleged that when the smoke cleared, Heydrich emerged from the wreckage with his gun still in his hand and he gave chase after Kubiš and tried to return fire. At least one account states that his pistol was not loaded. He ran for half a block, became weak from shock, and sent his driver, Klein, on foot to chase Gabčík. In the ensuing firefight, Gabčík shot Klein in the leg and escaped. Heydrich appeared not to be seriously injured.
One version suggests that a Czech woman went to Heydrich's aid and flagged down a truck delivering floor polish. First, Heydrich was placed in the back seat, but after complaining that the movement of the truck was causing him pain, he was placed in the back of the truck, lying on his stomach, and he was taken to Bulovka hospital. He had suffered a severe injury to the left side of his body with major damage to his diaphragm, spleen, and lung, as well as a broken rib. The doctors immediately performed an operation and, despite a slight fever, his recovery appeared to progress quite well. On 2 June, during a visit with Himmler, Heydrich reconciled himself with his fate by reciting a part of one of his father's operas: "The world is just a barrel-organ which the Lord God turns Himself. We all have to dance to the tune which is already on the drum."[9]
After Himmler's visit, Heydrich slipped into a coma and never regained consciousness. He is said to have died at 4:30am on 4 June at the age of 38. The autopsy states that he died of septicemia. Of peculiar note, Heydrich's facial expression as he passed from the earth (his "death mask") betrayed an "uncanny spirituality and entirely perverted beauty, like a renaissance Cardinal," according to Dr. Bernhard Wehner, a police official who investigated the assassination. (The Order of the Death's Head, Hohne, p. 495')
Hitler was enraged that his "protector" of Czechoslovakia had been assassinated. He ordered a quick investigation into who was responsible. Intelligence linked the assassins to the town of Lidice, Czechoslovakia. In retaliation, Hitler ordered a series of deportations in Lidice. Children who had blond hair and blue eyes were separated from their families and "adopted" by German families. In fact, the assassins had nothing to do with Lidice.
Src: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Heydrich#Assassination_in_Prague
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Operace "Daybreak" 1975 (Praha)by spx2011117,852 views
I'd be tempted to have pissed on the fucker as he was dying and make the comment, won't be getting home for sex tonight, Heydrich. Actually that Nazi rent boy had a nice slow death in a hospital in Prague.
Glenn1967ful 4 weeks ago
@icaruss88
Maybe use google translate next time.
2210ethan 1 month ago
@jorcastify
They defeated Fascism at the cost of many millions of lives.
2210ethan 1 month ago
@Glenn1967ful even so the nazis would of still have destroyed that village and it would of been hard to put heydrich on trial because alot of people would defend him.
jorcastify 1 month ago
@jorcastify
it would have been better to have kidnapped him and tied up a load of resources trying to find him. Even better kidnap him and smuggle him to England.
Glenn1967ful 1 month ago
they killed this man at the cost of thousands of lives
jorcastify 1 month ago
@MegaTanner24 I haven't seen the movie (yet) but what you are referring to is the crown which was part of Coronation Crown Jewels stored in the St. Vitus Cathedral in a chamber to which there are 7 keys held by 7 highest ranking secular and church officials in the country. The legend says that if anyone but the true, legitimate king puts the crown on his head, he will die within a year. It has never been proved Heydrich actually did put the crown on his head.
LKHK76 3 months ago
Got to hand it to them: Only dick swinging sons of bitches of the war to assassinate a high Nazi official.
lance1cj 4 months ago
What's the name of that music? It's so epic!
TheAeroAvatar 4 months ago 2
@newalm
all ww2 movie its shitty film
Germany lost the war but was one war vs Rusia , USA , GB , french , Poland , BTW
27 allied soldiers die in battle for 1 of Germany.
In Winners films all Country kill all German Army XD
Look Rusian , French , USA , GB , maybe Germany was like Chinese Army and all allied Soldier kill 10 , 50 , 100 LOL Movies are Movies and await more from XboX kids , the new WW2 veterans.
icaruss88 4 months ago