A new monument to the parachute of Kubiš and Gabčík from Operation Anthropoid was erected in Nehvizdy near Prague – Forum24
New monument to the paratroopers Kubiš and Gabčík in Nehvizdy near Prague PHOTO: ČTK / Kamaryt Michal
On December 29, 2021, eighty years passed since the jump of Czechoslovak soldiers Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabčík, Moravan and Slovák, as part of Operation Anthropoid near Nehvizd near Prague. The paratroopers found help with the local priest František Samek and local falcons – the miller Břetislav Bauman and his wife Emilia, František Kroutila from Nehvizd and Jaroslav Starý from Šestajovice. And so the foreign and Sokol resistance united in the protectorate to avenge the hundreds of victims of the first Heydrichiad (489 people were shot and sent to concentration camps in 1673) and punish the one who declared that the Czechs had nothing to look for in Czech territory.
The apparent calm in the protectorate was also disturbed on December 29, 1941 by the Silver A group, which landed behind Poděbrady near the village of Senice, and the Silver B group, which jumped down near Kasaličky near Přelouč. Economic and cultural Germanization and social demagoguery leading to the depoliticization of the Czech population, ie the loss of national identity, was already in full swing. The deputy imperial protector Reinhard Heydrich had the final solution to the Czech question ready: to Germanize, to displace, especially to destroy the intelligence.
Czech universities had been closed since November 17, 1939, but a Czech worker producing weapons for the Empire had to “get eaten” according to Heydrich. But on May 27, 1942, the head of the Imperial Security Office, going from Panenské Břežany to Černín Palace, from “home” to work, was injured by an English-made bomb of Kubiš in the corner of what was then Kirchmayerova (approximately Zenkl’s) street leading from Kobylis to Libno. Gabčík’s Sten Gun submachine gun got stuck before.
In addition to domestic resistance fighters, other parachute agents, as the Nazis called them, Josef Valčík and perhaps Adolf Opálka, were present at the assassination. The high Nazi chief, the dead head, died on June 4, 1942 of sepsis. The raging Nazis declared another martial law, during the Second Heidrichiads, innocent people died again, the nerves of the nation were whipped to the extreme.
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Seven paratroopers of various groups hid in the Orthodox Church of St. Cyril and Methodius in Resslova Street in Prague, three weeks until Čurda’s betrayal on June 16, 1942, however, the Nazis did not reveal anything and anyone. On June 18, 1942, the subsequent battle of Adolf Opálka, Jan Kubiš, Jozef Gabčík, Josef Bublík, Jan Hrubý, Jaroslav Švarc and Josef Valčík against the superiority lasted for seven hours, and our soldiers fell.
Their names can be found on the memorial descent on the bullet-riddled wall, their busts in the crypt of the church transformed into the National Monument to the Heroes of the Heydrichiad. In front of the church entrance, hundreds of names of paratrooper assistants who were shot at the Kobylisy shooting range, the Ruzyne barracks and 264 men, women and children in the Mauthausen concentration camp on October 24, 1942 are marked on black pillars.
Under the letter B we read Bauman Břetislav and Baumanová Emilie, who survived the war at the Thomayer Hospital in Krč under the supervision of the Gestapo at the time of the arrest of their two-year-old son Svatopluk. Jaroslav Starý is listed under the letter S. František Kroutil emigrated after the war, valuable data was provided by the hunting gamekeeper Alois Šmejkal.
Vladimír Jankovský of Úval was executed in the Pardubice Chateau in Pardubice on July 3, 1942, at 7 pm for the approval of the assassination. Among the ten people shot was one woman, Marie Skořepová from Peček, and Josef Bláha and JUDr. Emil Říha from Český Brod.
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The retribution for the assassination was terrible: 1585 shot plus the number of tortured prisoners in the concentration camps. Including our Jewish population, it will reach around 5,000. The whole world has realized this, also after the so-called legal act of extermination of Lidice and Ležáky announced by the Nazis, that peace and satisfaction in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia are only apparent.
As a result of the events, the governments of Great Britain and France withdrew their signatures under the Munich Agreement. In July 1942, the Czechoslovak government in exile was recognized by the Soviet Union and Great Britain, in September 1942 by Free France, which strengthened the international position of our exile, led by Edvard Beneš.
A monument was unveiled above the motorway at the Kubiš and Gabčík jumps in 2010, but it will be part of the high-speed railway station. Therefore, representatives of the town of Nehvizda unveiled a new monument in U Hřbitova Street on December 29, 2021 at 1 p.m. The paratroopers of the Army of the Czech Republic performed a jump, the Czechoslovak legionary community sent a convoy of historic vehicles. A traveling exhibition on Czechoslovak training was prepared in the falconry. skydivers in Scotland and the cultural program.
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A memorial to the victims of the First World War is already standing in Nehvizdy, as well as a memorial to the victims of the Second World War. A monument commemorating the former mill and the courage of the Baumans is located opposite the pond in Horoušany. A plaque commemorating the assassination can be found at the Vosmíkových tram station in Liben, and a memorial to Operation Anthropoid and the Domestic Resistance was installed on the Prosecká radial in Prague. Are we able to understand their message?
During World War II, hundreds of thousands of Czechoslovak citizens perished in execution sites, concentration camps, forced labor, on the Eastern and Western fronts, including fighting in Asia and Africa, as well as shootings with Gestapo members. Without sacrifice, there would be no free Czech nation. Are we ready to defend freedom today?
Lectured by PhDr. Lenka Mandová is a historian, Germanist and tourist guide, for example she published the book Čsl. legionaries and Úvaly and monographs From the Virginity to the Wild West about the life of the writer Marie Majerová.