Josef Valčík

Josef Valčík
Born (1914-11-02)2 November 1914
Died 18 June 1942(1942-06-18) (aged 27)
Allegiance
Service/branch
Years of service
  • 1936–1939
  • 1940–1942
Rank Podporučík (Lieutenant)
Unit Special Operations Executive
Battles/wars

Second World War

Awards Czechoslovak War Cross 1939–1945

Josef Valčík (pronounced [ˈjɔzɛv ˈval̩tʃiːk]; 2 November 1914 – 18 June 1942) was a Czechoslovak British-trained soldier and member of the Resistance in German-occupied Czechoslovakia who took part in the firefight during the aftermath of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš, code named Operation Anthropoid.

SS-Obergruppenführer Heydrich, a high-ranking German Nazi official, was chief of the Reich Main Security Office and one of the main architects of the Holocaust. He was also Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia in 1942.

The Germans were unable to locate the attackers until Karel Čurda of the "Out Distance" sabotage group turned himself in to the Gestapo and gave them the names of the team's local contacts for the reward of one million Reichsmarks.[1] Valčík and the others died after a six-hour firefight with Waffen-SS troops and German police in the Saints Cyril and Methodius Cathedral.[2]

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References

Citations

  1. ↑ Lisciotto (2009).
  2. ↑ McDonald (1989).

Sources

  • McDonald, Callum (1989). The Killing of Reinhard Heydrich: The SS Butcher of Prague. New York: Da Capo. p. 239. ISBN 978-0-306-80860-9. OCLC 722860441.
  • Lisciotto, Carmelo (2009). "The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich". The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
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