Operation Anthropoid Memorial

Operation Anthropoid Memorial Stock Photo

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CTK / Alamy Stock Photo

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J29F6P

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4912 x 3264 px | 41.6 x 27.6 cm | 16.4 x 10.9 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

11 April 2017

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Czech Republic,

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The Operation Anthropoid Memorial in Prague, Czech Republic, April 11, 2017. The Memorial by authors: sculptors David Mojescik and Michal Smeral and architects Miroslava Tumova and Jiri Gulbis, was unveiled in 2009. Operation Anthropoid was the code name for the assassination of SS Obergruppenfuhrer and General der Polizei Reinhard Heydrich, head of the combined security services of Nazi Germany, and acting Reichsprotektor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia by Czechoslovakian partisans on 27 May 1942. (CTK Photo/Klara Foitlova)

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