Karel Čurda

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Karel Čurda (October 10, 1911, Nová Hlína near Třeboň — April 29, 1947, Prague) was a Czech World War II soldier from the Czechoslovak army in exile. He was parachuted into the protectorate in 1941 as a member of the sabotage group Out Distance. He is known for his betrayal of the Czecho-Slovak assassins of top Nazi Reinhard Heydrich in Prague (see Operation Anthropoid). His rewards was 1 million Reichsmark. Under new German-sound name "Karl Jerhot" he married a German wife.

After the war, Čurda was captured, and hanged for treason at Pankrác Prison.

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• Operation Anthropoid