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Heydrich Assassination

The assassination of Heydrich and its aftermath.

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Jan 16, 2026
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What archival evidence exists in Gestapo reports about the investigation linking Lidice to Heydrich’s assassins?

Gestapo archival reporting—reproduced in postwar histories and reference works—recorded that investigators briefly suspected Lidice because several Czechoslovak army officers exiled in Britain had ori...

Jan 29, 2026

How have historians assessed evidence of deliberate fabrication or planting of evidence by Gestapo agents in reprisals like Lidice?

Most historians treat as a paradigmatic case of Nazi collective reprisal carried out on flimsy or manufactured grounds: contemporary accounts and major institutions emphasize that there was no solid e...