Research Catalog

Title

The killing of SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich / Callum MacDonald.

Author

MacDonald, C. A.

Publication

New York : Free Press, 1989.

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Details

Description

viii, 239 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports.; 25 cm.

Summary

It has been said that if responsibility for the Nazi camps can be laid at the feet of any one man, that man is Reinhard Heydrich. This book describes "Operation Anthropoid"--The Czech plan to assassinate Heydrich in 1942. Retribution for his violent death included several thousand executions and two villages being razed to the ground. Based on previously untouched archive material and interviews with surviving members of SOE and Czech military intelligence, this is an account of the motives for killing Heydrich, the course of the plan to execute him and how his killers were tracked down.

Subject

• Heydrich, Reinhard, 1904-1942 > Assassination
• Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel > Biography
• 1933-1945
• World War, 1939-1945 > Underground movements > Czechoslovakia
• Nazis > Biography
• Germany > Politics and government > 1933-1945

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [213]-215.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The target -- The plan -- The operation.

ISBN

0029195616

LCCN

^^^88038755^

OCLC

• 18833070
• SCSB-10910884

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library