The Final Reckoning: How Czechs Dealt With Hitler's Soldiers
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In the final days of the Second World War in Europe, Prague remained under German occupation even as Allied armies closed in from east and west. On 5 May 1945, a call for help from Prague radio helped ignite an uprising that brought thousands of Czechs into the streets. Barricades appeared across the capital as resistance fighters, police officers and civilians challenged German forces that had controlled the city for more than six years. This documentary follows the dramatic events of the Prague Uprising and the occupation that preceded it. It examines the German takeover of the Czech lands in 1939, the growing power of the Gestapo and SS, the persecution of Prague’s Jewish population, and the resistance that developed under increasingly severe German rule. It also traces the consequences of Operation Anthropoid, the attack on Reinhard Heydrich, and the reprisals that followed, including the destruction of Lidice and Ležáky. By May 1945, German soldiers were attempting to move west to
Tags: World History, Reinhard Heydrich, Third Reich, World War 2, Second World War, Lidice 1941, Prague uprising, The SS, SS men, German SS, Czechoslovakia WW2, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Václav Sedláček, Jan Opletal, Sachsenhausen camp, Jan Kubiš, Jozef Gabčík, Prague during WW2, Prague WW2, Prague in World War 2
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