A book speculates that one motivation for the Heydrich assassination may have been an effort to protect Canaris, a high ranking German officer who was a double agent.
Book review at link below:
https://www.amazon.com/review/R2HXNQRNKEGJZV/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B007WN52II
That's an interesting angle about which I'd never heard anything before. Thanks for the recommendation!
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Just got to that part in the Canaris book, and while author concludes that Operation Anthropoid was an SOE (Special Operations Executive- military intelligence/sabotage), not SIS (i.e. MI-6 aka the James Bond folks)inspired plan; he does mention that when the local Czech resistance requested that Anthropoid be cancelled, Sir Stuart Menzies (aka "C" the head os SIS/MI-6)got involved in moving the plan forward.
For what it's worth, the excellent (vintage B&W- and on youtube w/ English subtitles) Czech movie "Attentat" describing these events, features the Canaris/Heydrich rivalry.
There is also speculation that he survived the assassination attempt and was killed while in hospital by his Nazi compatriots.
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