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COLLATERAL DAMAGE!!!!

posted 8 years ago by lsieg
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I well know that Heydrich was a monster and deserved his fate, but I question that the Czech Govt. in Exile, safe in London, could hatch such a plan. They must have known the German reputation for vengeance through innocent hostages. Heydrich's assassination cost 5000 Czech lives in a few weeks, far more than his heinous administration would have murdered in that same time frame.

Can someone explain how this action helped the cause of the war or the freedom of the Czechs?
Heydrich was replaced by another German sadist. The few ill-equipped Czech soldiers were sent on a suicide mission. Was it supposed to be a symbol of Czech resistance, without even a working Sten gun?

The term "collateral damage" wasn't used then, but what term did the Czech govt. in exile use about the victims of this plan or did they not even consider the fate of the 5,000 men, women and children who paid with their lives for this mission?

[–] RightersBloc 8 years ago

Heydrich had ordered the murder of more than 1 million people in 1939 alone.

Had he survived he would have been responsible for the murder of many more than that.