Four days after the assassination. Himmler arrived in Prague 80 years ago to check Heydrich ‘s health iROZHLAS
Four days after the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the deputy imperial protector, the head of the SS and the Gestapo, Heinrich Himmler, arrives in Prague. In the hospital of the injured Heydrich, and then he goes to Panenské Břežany to see his wife. We bring you the events of May 31, 1942 in the next part of the diary from the protectorate.
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SS SS leader Heinrich Himmler comes to the hospital to see Reinhard Heydrich. The status of the deputy imperial protector is improving. He assures his superior that he would rather leave the hospital bed immediately and find the assassins himself. He does not complain of pain because doctors regularly provide him with morphine.
In the afternoon, visit Himmler at the castle in Panenské Břeřany Lina Heydrichová. Before flying back to Berlin, he asks the new deputy imperial protector Kurt Daluege and KH Frank how the investigation into the attack on Heydrich continues.
He has good news for Adolf Hitler about Heydrich’s recovery, but the investigation into the assassination is deadlocked. Despite raids and executions, the Gestapo has no information to capture the perpetrators.
Threats and mass repairs. The German reaction to the assassination of Heydrich was swift and forceful
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On the evening of May 31, 1942, the Protectorate Ministry of Education and Public Awareness, Emanuel Moravec, delivered a radio address in which he expressed deep indignation at the attempt to kill Reinhard Heydrich. In his speech, the Czech nation is threatened with genocide if the perpetrators are not extradited.
The Gestapo continues to arrest him. The wife and parents of parachutist Karel Svoboda, who is in Great Britain, are detained with the help of the Bivouac airdrop.
His wife Irena and father Josef are still executed that evening at the Kobyliska shooting range in Prague.
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