The Killing of Reinhard Heydrich The SS "Butcher of Prague"

by MacDonald, Callum

• ISBN13: 9780306808609
• ISBN10: 0306808609
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-08-22
• Publisher: Da Capo Press

Summary

If anyone warranted assassination during World War II, the man to know was Reinhard Heydrich (19041942)chief of the security police, rabid anti-Semite, architect of the Final Solution, ruthless overlord of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, and Hitler's most likely successor. In 1941, at the height of the Nazi's seeming invincibility, the Czech government-in-exile launched a desperate operation to kill Heydrich. From the assassins' training in England to their Thermopylae-like last stand in the flooded crypt of a Prague church, and the Nazi's savage reprisals (including the obliteration of two villages),The Killing of Reinhard Heydrichbrilliantly recounts one of World War II's most daring and tragic missions.

Author Biography

Callum MacDonald was a historian at the University of Warwick, England, and the author of Korea: The War Before Vietnam. He died in 1996.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
The Target	3	(64)
1 Funeral in Berlin	3	(20)
2 Hitler's Secret Policeman	23	(22)
3 The Czech Connexion	45	(22)
The Plan	67	(40)
4 Exiles	67	(19)
5 Time for Action	86	(21)
The Operation	107	(102)
6 The Butcher of Prague	107	(23)
7 Return	130	(19)
8 Preparations	149	(20)
9 Assassination	169	(22)
10 Ending	191	(18)
Appendix 1: Acronyms and Codenames	209	(2)
Appendix 2: Czech Parachute Groups 1941/42	211	(2)
Primary Sources and Select Bibliography	213	(4)
Notes	217	(14)
Index	231	(10)
Picture Acknowledgements	241