It highly restores the only Allied operation against the high-ranking Nazis in World War II - the assassination of Heydrich, the No. 3 Nazi figure known as the "Butcher of Prague". The 120-minute film is just a simplified version, restrained, faithful, and forbearing to show courage and sacrifice, and the more magnificent historical facts are left to the subtitles at the beginning and end of the film to be unsatisfactory... History is far more cruel and frightening than the film——
1. The assassination operation was jointly initiated by the British and Czech governments in exile, and Heydrich died of injuries; the seven members of the operation team resisted stubbornly for 6 hours during the roundup, and finally all committed suicide.
2. The assassination led to frantic revenge by the Gestapo, 5,000 people were executed, and 13,000 people were sent to concentration camps. In the most notorious Lidice massacre, the Nazis executed all men over the age of 16 in the village, women and children were sent to concentration camps, where most of them died, and a total of 88 children were maimed, which became the origin of International Children's Day .
3. The Czech government-in-exile did not expect the bloody retaliation of the German army on the grounds of "collective responsibility". They believed that the massacre was an acceptable price in terms of arousing the resistance of the Czech people.
4. So far, the "Munich Agreement", which was jointly signed by Britain, France, Germany and Italy, in the name of "land for peace", was in fact completely bankrupt by betraying and sacrificing the Czech Republic to seek peace with the Nazis. Britain and France were slapped in the face, their alliance system in Europe collapsed, and they drank the poisonous wine brought by appeasement weakness and aiding the tyranny.
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