No central group in the National Socialist regime pursued the murder of Europe’s Jews more actively than the men who served directly under Reinhard Heydrich.
Yet it is still not widely known that the military operation to assassinate Heydrich was planned in London with the support of the British government and carried out by two Czechoslovakian soldiers-in-exile.
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The death of Heydrich was met with savage reprisals from the Nazi regime, including the annihilation of the village of Lidice under Hitler’s orders. The Wiener Library’s next temporary exhibition brings to light the terrifying series of events surrounding the 1942 mission codenamed ‘Operation Anthropoid’, and unravels its connections with the escalation of genocide in occupied Europe.
The exhibition, realised with the help of conceptual designer and co-curator Jan Kaplan, opens on Monday 26th March and will run until Friday 8th June.
Further details of programming relating to this exhibition in April and May will be announced in our next E-Newsletter.
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