Talk:Operation Anthropoid

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Contents 1 older comments 2 Sten Gun Jamming? 3 Bohemian crown myth 4 Calling an anti-czechslovakian anglo-saxon bloodshed conspiracy "heroes"? That is NPOV.

[edit] older comments

Gosh, this poor thing has gone downhill. Orphaned editing marks, mysterious links. Let me do some technical corrections, I hope I do not modify the content. Paul, in Saudi 16:05, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

I made lot of work on this article since your comment - it just need some clean up (as Im not an english-master;). PS.Reading new and new information about this operation was more exciting than any film I´ve seen in last years (and I´ve seen lot of films:) Szalas

Holy Mary, this thing is in bad shape. I've read this article before, I don't remember it being this broken! I started doing a section edit but quickly realized I was trying to rescue something that probably bears a rewrite. Rhombus 02:32, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

I just did a rewrite, adding some stuff from the page on Jan Kusic. Hopefully this helps a bit. Tiger Khan 19:14, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

It would be interesting to see a citation supporting this article's statement that there has been "much speculation by historians" regarding the role of Himmler's physicians in Heydrich's treatment.--PLB 22:39, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sten Gun Jamming?

As Heydrich's open-topped Mercedes-Benz neared the pair, Gabčík is said to have stepped in front of the vehicle, trying to open fire, but his Sten gun jammed.

There has recently been a drama-documentary on the UK History channel about Operation Anthropoid which included actual Nazi photographs of the real "crime scene". One of the pictures clearly shows Gabčík's Mark II Sten gun lying on the road where he threw it away, minus its butt-stock. This raises the intriguing possibility that rather than jamming the real reason for Gabčík being unable to open fire was that perhaps due to an error in timing (or Heydrich's car arriving early) he was still assembling the knocked-down gun when Heydrich's car came round the corner. You can fire a Sten Mark II without the butt-stock fitted but it's very awkward, as there's no pistol grip like on the later Mark IV and V and it's unlikely anyone would want to try to do so in circumstances such as an attack on Heydrich. It's also unlikely that Gabčík would have attempted to dismantle a useless weapon afterwards before throwing it away, as the two SOE agents were being attacked by both a wounded Heydrich (who subsequently collapsed) and Klein, his driver, who pursued Gabčík some distance before Gabčík shot and killed him with a pistol. Ian Dunster 14:20, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bohemian crown myth

This was excised from the article on May 27, 2007. I was actually seeking more information on the particular subject.

A Czech legend exists that states that if one who is not a true Czech King puts the Czech royal crown on his head, he will die in one year and a day. Before his death, Heydrich had put the royal crown on his head. Some say that the day of his assassination was exactly one year and one day from that date.

Group29 13:56, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

A user copied this to my discussion page:

-Its true. Its mentioned for example there: [1] or there[2]. Redy —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.176.55.136 (talk) 10:58, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Group29 (talk) 17:40, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Calling an anti-czechslovakian anglo-saxon bloodshed conspiracy "heroes"? That is NPOV.

> To commemorate the heroes of the Czech and Slovak resistance <

This is NPOV, because those assassin guys brought only misery to the population due to extremely massive german reprisals. If they fought soldier-like (e.g. russian partisans blowing up german military trains) they could be rightly called heroes, but targeted assasinations are inherently morally low and repulsive and create respone in kind. Just like a ninja is never a samurai, there can be no honour or heroism in being an assassin. 91.83.15.197 (talk) 22:12, 27 May 2008 (UTC)