Fight to Honour Heroes Who Killed Top Nazi
22 ! Saturday August 20 2016 | the times News Fight to honour heroes whokilled top Nazi British Jews !! ‘are right to David Charter Berlin eight days later and Hitler ordered bloody reprisals including the razing of In one of the most daring raids of the several villages while Heinrich Himm- be worried’ Second World War Jozef Gabcik and ler’s SS hunted the attackers. Jan Kubis killed a right-hand man of They were betrayed by a resistance Gabriella Swerling Hitler before they were betrayed and comrade for one million marks, sur- hunted down by the SS. rounded in a Prague church where A world-renowned Israeli historian of Nowacampaign has begun to find Gabcik was fatally wounded and Kubis the Holocaust who is an expert on anti- the remains of the Czechoslovak pa- committed suicide rather than be semitism has said that “if I were a Brit- triots, who parachuted into their caught after a six-hour gun battle. ish Jew, I would be worried”. homeland from Britain to track and Dozens of resistance sympathisers Yehuda Bauer, 90, an academic kill Reinhard Heydrich, the most were rounded up and killed. adviser to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust senior Nazi to be assassinateddur- Karel Curda, who betrayed them, memorial in Jerusalem, said that Ken ing the war, in an early triumph was found guilty of high treason after Livingstone was a “violent anti-semite”, for the Special Operations Exec- the war in 1947 and hanged. His body and that Jeremy Corbyn “has a utive, the forerunner of MI6. was placed in the same mass grave as problem”. Gabcik, a Slovak, and Kubis, Gabcik and Kubis in Dablice cemetery Community Security Trust, a Jewish born in Moravia in the present- in northern Prague. ant-racist charity, this month reported day Czech Republic, were best The bodies of Gabcik and Kubis were an increase in antisemitic incidents in friends who fled the Nazi take- Reinhard thrown into a mass grave. Campaigners the UK, with 557 cases of malicious acts over to train as Free Czecho- Heydrich was now want them exhumed and their re- from January to June — 11 per cent up slovak paratroopers at Chol- killed by, right, burial with full national honours as part on the same period last year. mondeley Castle in Cheshire. Jan Kubis and, of a programme to identify and com- Asked whether Jewish people had a Heydrich controlled occu- below, Jozef memorate the thousands of remains in right to feel concerned, Professor Bauer pied Bohemia and Moravia, and Gabcik. The pair burial grounds used by Nazi and Com- replied: “Yes. If I were a British Jew, I wasakey organiser of the Holocaust. are played in the munist regimes to dispose of their op- certainly would be worried by it. I Dropped in with a team of resistance film Anthropoid, ponents up until the 1960s. mean, after all, they are being attacked fighters, the pair launched their attack above, by Jamie Neela Winkelmann, head of the one way or the other.” on Heydrich in Prague in May 1942 at a Dornan and Platform of European Memory and He said that research in Israel had hairpin bend on his daily journey to Cillian Murphy Conscience group, said: “We want to found that threats made verbally or on Prague Castle. The mission, known as give a dignified burial to the heroes of social media worldwide had fallen, but Operation Anthropoid, is the subject of the anti-Nazi and anti-Communist the violence of them had increased. a film called Anthropoid, released next resistance. We seem to be facing “There are more violent incidents, month starring Cillian Murphy as opposition in the ministries with costs thereforeifIwereaBritishJew, thecon- Gabcik and Jamie Dornan as Kubis. being used as an easy excuse for not cern would certainly be there, because Gabcik stepped out in front of Hey- dealing with the issue. Some people do of that increasing violence,” he said. drich’s open-topped Mercedes but his not want these old issues to be opened Professor Bauer is being brought to Sten gun jammed. Just as Heydrich up.” the UK by Yachad, a charity that cam- stood up to shoot Gabcik, Kubis threw a Jana Zechmeisterova, of the Czech paigns for a political resolution to the grenade that exploded outside the car, defence ministry, said: “The intention Israeli-Palestinian conflict and will be wounding Heydrich, who collapsed as to exhume and identify bodies from discussing a range of issues with Tulip he chased the assassins. Heydrich died Dablice cemetery is in its initial phase.” Siddiq, MP, in London on September 6.