Digging Up Reinhard Heydrich - Grave Robbers Target Himmler's Deputy

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Mark Felton, the history teacher you always wanted but rarely got!

I first heard of Reinhard Heydrich from a professor of mine at Charles University in Prague who was a member of the RAF Czechoslovak squadron. He took us to the bend in the road where Heydrich was assassinated, and to the Orthodox cathedral where the paratroopers were eventually killed. (The Nazis flooded the crypt of the church and used explosives to make an entrance. The paratroopers killed themselves before they could be captured, and the Nazis killed the Orthodox bishop as well). We also visited Lidice, in which all the men were murdered and the women and children sent to concentration camps, most to eventually die. The village was then plowed under. All of this as reprisal for the death of one awful man. It was all terrible to learn, but I'm grateful to my professor for educating us so thoroughly on such horrible aspects of the war.

all these years later and this dude still drops awesome tidbits. its amazing honestly.

The fact Heydrich was the only senior Nazi who was intentionally assassinated with full allied support shows how serious they felt about his competency.

Mark, I really appreciate your plain and straight-forward delivery style.

Mark, you are a continued breath of fresh air on short format documentary videos. You don’t need a catch phrase at the end of each video, or to put a capitalized HORRIFIC or JUSTIFIED in your title like other sophomoric wannabes do. When a good story has real facts, you don’t need to embellish for views and clicks, and you are a master of giving the unbiased facts. Thank you!

No tears will be shed for the Butcher of Prague.

The Germans technically didn't rename these parts of Czechoslovakia, since these occupied areas were actually called Bohemia and Moravia and they still are today.

This is supposedly when Hitler realised the war had come home to him personally as Heydrich was the first of his inner circle to die during WW2.

What a wonderful wealth of topics, and each one is covered in an authoritative and concise manner. Quite simply some of the best content on YouTube. Thank you Mark.

This is a wild story! Thank you for posting it.

A good movie about he assasination and the reasons behind it is in the movie Anthropoid. There is a marker in Praha at the location of the hit. Heydrich died a few days latter becasue he detested the Czechs so much that he forbid the Czech doctors to operate on him, instead waiting on german doctors to arrive from Berlin. It was sepsis, and his arrogance, that killed him in the end. The Czechoslovak Commandos that took part in the operation died in St. Cyril & St. Methodius Cathedral in Praha and the building still shows the bullet holes of the last fight, the cript is now a museum.

In US, Civil War graves were sometimes pilfered for artifacts. Supposedly many officers were buried with their swords; authentic officer swords are very much valued on the collectors market.

I love that you're putting out so many videos now and the quality has maintained that always high-level if not improved.

Mark, I have been waiting a few years for you to make a video about Heydrich! We need more! Your the best!!

Pretty obvious Mark robbed the grave.

I despise grave robbery in general. Such things belong in a museum and not in the hands of these thieves.

You are the best of all reporters that I listen to. Showing video or pix of the subject matter and to the point narratives.

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing. History should never be forgotten, no matter how horrible it was.