Sunday, March 22, 2020

john HRUBY, pencil sketch by Dr k Prabhakar rao


JAN HRUBY, CZECH RESISTANCE, ANTHRPOID TEAM TRAINED IN ENGLAND TO ASSASSINATE SENIOR NAZI LEADER REINHARD HEYDRICH, WHO WAS THE CHIEF ADMINISTRATOR OF CZECH PROVINCE BOHEMIA AND MORAVIA. Subsequent to  assassination resulting in nazi reprisals and gun fight with the team that plotted against the nazi officer, Jan HRUBY committed suicide in a church under ground along with three more comrades after a bitter gun fight when escape became  impossible and surrender became inevitable. the resistance team was armed with only pistols while nazi commandos were armed with machine guns, sub machine guns and grenades and rifles.

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