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Thanx Crapgame! Very interesting!

I suddenly started to wonder why see all the trouble to kill Heydrich. It was clear that there would be actions against the civilians and Hitler would give the new gauleiter freedom to do whatever he pleases with the Czech people after Heydrich was dead. So what was the prize behind? So why go for Heydrich?

I myself am not too sure but here´s one possible explanation:

Heydrich was not assassinated in order to inconvenience the Germans; he was killed to show London and Washington that Czech resistance was effective and, more importantly, to help the exiled Czechoslovak government politically - first, in getting the British to publicly annul their adherence to the Munich Agreement and, secondly, to help bring Benes's post-war plans for Czechoslovakia closer to fruition, especially the recreation of Czechoslovakia within her pre-1938 borders and promoting the policy of transferring the Sudetendeutsche. From these perspectives it was a stunning success.

http://www.ce-review.org/99/16/response16_brown.html

Other reasons? Ideas?

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Hi Crapgame--thanks for these postings as well.

Its nice to see that there is a Memorial to all the Children in Lidice who were murdered.

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These are some of the reasons but it had to be done because some of the policies implemented by Heydrich were bearing fruit and was being accepted by the Czechs. Heydrich was giving them some freedom in exchange for cooperation. It was working and the resistance was having a hard time recruiting because of Heydrich's carrot and Stick policy. The exiled Czech government was embarassed and needed to demonstrate that the Czechs wanted to be saved. So in assassinating Heydrich they killed two birds with the same stone. Heydrich's replacement reacted in a typical German way which stirred up the populace and gave the resistance recruits it needed along with the Czech cry for freedom.

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