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The movie "Assassination of the Gestapo" is about a famous event during World War II, the assassination of the Nazi leader Heydrich. The same story was also made in a movie in 2016 called "Ape Action". The two films have different perspectives. The latter is mainly about planning operations of Czech paratroopers and resistance groups. The former is about the various actions of the assassinated Gestapo Heydrich. As for which one is good-looking, there are different opinions. In my own opinion, if you look at the plot, dialogue and storytelling, "Operation Apes" should be better. If you follow the facts and shooting skills, "Assassination of Gestapo" is even better.
The historical background of the film is as follows:
Reinhard Heydrich was born into a family of artists. He is a beautiful man with blond hair, blue eyes and a tall stature. He is good at swimming, equestrianism, track and field, fencing and other sports. He entered the Navy in his early years, but was removed from the Navy due to life style issues. Distressed for a while. He joined the SS in 1931, and in just ten years he became the deputy commander-in-chief of the SS and a police admiral. It seems that the German Nazis in those days could be regarded as "electrified talents".
Heydrich is an innate intelligence genius, with super understanding and analysis ability, and amazing memory. He has a unique hobby of music, playing the violin very well, and also excellent in piano, cello, and composition. He is also a very good athlete with decathlon in track and field; he has excellent performances, is proficient in skiing, swimming, sailing, flying, riding, cross-country, fencing, is both a sharpshooter and an excalibur. He once ran across Germany and has been Modern pentathlon athletes. Later, he also served as the sports director of the national leader of the SS. And served as the executive chairman of the International Fencing Federation. No matter what the standard is, his "wisdom" and "body" are perfect and unparalleled.
It is a pity that "morality" is much worse. Although he has a quarter of Jewish ancestry. He was an extreme anti-Semitism early on. He organized four special operations teams dedicated to the massacre of Soviet Jews. Killed nearly a million Soviet Jews, most of whom were women, children and the elderly. He first proposed the notorious "final solution" and proposed a crazy plan to slaughter 11 million Jews in Europe.
In 1941, Heinrich became the governor of Bohemia. A total of 404 people were sentenced to death, including 6 generals and 10 colonels from the former Czech army. More than 5,000 people were sent to concentration camps . During his tenure, local Jews and resistance organizations were brutally suppressed, and millions of people died as a result. Known as the "Prague Butcher".
Faced with this murderer, Churchill personally ordered the start of the assassination. Two Czech paratroopers accepted the task and, together with the Prague Resistance Group, started the "Operation Apes". When Heydrich's car was driving on a bend, a paratrooper immediately pulled the trigger, but was misfired. Seeing this, another paratrooper hurriedly took out a special bomb and threw it at the car. The bomb exploded and Heydrich was seriously injured. A few days later, he died of pleurisy in the hospital. It turned out that it was a very poisonous bomb.
After Heydrich's death, the German Gestapo retaliated wildly against the Czechs. Thousands of people were arrested and thousands were killed.
The village of Lidice, suspected of providing cover for the assassination team, was completely destroyed. All men were shot, women were sent to concentration camps , children were sent to correctional homes, and even the name of the village was not allowed to exist.
The Gestapo and the Imperial Security Department in Prague also conducted a raid across the city and offered a reward of 2 million marks to capture the killer.
As the two arrested paratroopers rebelled, the Gestapo used this as a clue to pursue the investigation. The 7 hidden paratroopers gathered at a church in Prague . However, their actions were learned by the Gestapo who followed the vine. German troops surrounded the church, and seven paratroopers stood by the church for 14 hours. Three paratroopers died one after another. Four paratroopers committed suicide.
This is what happened that year. It's not a spoiler. I have said so much because of several questions that have come to mind.
One is the performance of the characters in the play. When I watched this movie, I always felt that it was different from other movies. The thinking of the characters was weird, and the personality of the people seemed too neurotic, especially the resistance movement and paratroopers. It's normal to think about it. Our audiences are all living in peaceful times, and have long been accustomed to seeing the world in peacetime thinking. Needless to say, our daily lives needless to say, even gangster movies, stalking, stalking, gunfighting, and speed racing are inseparable from peace. The environment.
But in the Czech Republic during World War II, the weak and small nations were bullied by the powerful Germany, with the unarmed people on one side and the armed SS on the other. People face death every day, face slaughter, and worry about the knock on the door of the Gestapo all the time. In the general environment of war, people are thinking about all issues in a state of terror. When you meet a stranger, you will wonder if the other party is a spy. When the resistance organization receives an order to assassinate Heydrich in London, the first thing it thinks about is the safety of its own family and organization. As the leader of the resistance movement said: "If your actions are successful, the Czech Republic may not exist anymore." Even falling in love has almost become a luxury for the last days. The two paratroopers who performed the mission had been on the battlefield and received special training. They were really pessimistic and scared on the eve of the assassination. This is different from the face-to-face killing on the battlefield. Under the high-pressure rule of the SS, their actions will be successful or not. No, the possibility of escaping in the end is minimal, so what they feel is the fear of expected death. At the scene of the assassination, they were at a loss when they couldn't pull the trigger, and fled in confusion. In our opinion, it is far from being brave, fearless and calm. However, the leaders of the resistance movement said to them: "You are the bravest people I have ever seen." Only those who live in a war environment can express such sincere admiration.
Second, let's look at people like Heydrich. It stands to reason that his family environment and education should give him a strong humanistic spirit and moral quality, but in the end he became a devil. The controversy between "sex is good" and "sex is evil" has been going on for thousands of years. In my opinion, perhaps the seeds of good and evil coexist in people, depending on what the environment, the soil, is like. In a harmonious environment, what grows is the fruit of good, and in the soil of sin, what grows is the flower of evil. In his life, the line between good and evil is blurred, with romantic love on one side and relentless killing on the other. In the office, he signed countless orders to kill civilians, and at the banquet, he was immersed in the melody of Wagner. In the eyes of Heydrich and others, the criterion is only their racial beliefs and the protection of Nazi interests. What he lacks is a basic conscience. In the film, Heydrich said when he was dying: "The world is a savage pipe organ. God turns the crank and we all dance to the melody." This is generally true. The only problem is that it is not God who turns the crank, but Satan.
It is not only Heydrich who dances with the devil, but Hitler, Goering, Himmler, and the big and small Nazis. Strictly speaking, it also includes most of the German people. Hitler was elected through a democratic process. At that time, the German people needed Hitler. Even without him, the people would shape a Hitler. Thus, a country that gave birth to Goethe Beethoven also created demons like Hitler Heydrich, and a soil that nurtured civilization also created evil. A tyranny of the majority formed in Europe at that time. The hatred of the Jewish nation and the anger at the defeat of the First World War made Germany at the time lose its sanity, and eventually plunged the whole of Europe into the abyss of war, and made Germany itself pay a heavy price. The German people are not only responsible for the lives of tens of millions of people in Europe and the dead of the Jewish people, but also for the ruins of Dresden in Berlin and the ravages of German women.
After watching the movie, what I want to say most is: "Peace is so good!"
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