Heydrich's Killers' Graves found

**Kyt** · 10-04-2007, 08:37 AM

http://www.praguemonitor.com/en/183/...al_news/12882/

MfD: Experts find wartime paratroopers' grave

By ČTK / Published 4 October 2007

Prague, Oct 3 (CTK) - Jan Kubis and Jozef Gabcik, the wartime Czechoslovak heroes who murdered Nazi Reichsprotector Reinhard Heydrich, are buried in anonymous pits at Prague's Dablice cemetery, a year-long research has confirmed, the daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) writes Wednesday.

Paradoxically, the two paratroopers, along with their colleagues within the anti-Nazi resistance, who all finally committed suicide in a cache before the Gestapo could catch them alive, are buried in Dablice along with Karel Curda, a traitor who reported their cache to the Nazis, the daily writes.

High-ranking German and Czech pro-Nazi officials who were executed as war criminals after the war are also buried in Dablice, as well as victims of the Czechoslovak communist coup of 1948, the paper says.

"We checked the testimonies of witnesses and past recordings of the Prague Cemeteries' Management, including the Institute of Forensic Medicine," says Ales Knizek, head of the Czech Military Historical Institute that organised the research.

The researchers also gained valuable help from a private explorer who in the 1980s recorded the testimonies of former doctors and police officers well acquainted with the Nazi "technology" of freedom fighter burying, who, however, have died in the meantime.

Emanuel Vlcek, leading Czech anthropologist, who worked in the Forensic Medicine Institute during the war and who died one year ago, confirmed to MfD shortly before his death that the remains of victims from among Czechoslovak freedom fighters had been buried in Dablice.

"If this [the paratroopers' undignified burying] is true, it is a huge shame and something must be done about it," Czech Senate deputy chairman Jiri Liska (Civic Democrats, ODS) told MfD previously still before the research confirmed the suspicion.

Liska says that in negotiations with the Dablice district hall he pushed through the plan to erect a monument to the late paratroopers and other freedom fighters. It is to be unveiled on October 28, the anniversary day of the establishment of Czechoslovakia in 1918, whcih is a public holiday, MfD writes.

Apart from Kubis and Gabcik, a duo known under the codename Anthropoid, Dablice is also a burial place of Alfred Bartos, Josef Valcik and Jiri Potucek (paratroopers from the Silver A operation), Adolf Opalka (commander of the Out Distance paratrooper group), freedom fighter Vaclav Moravek and Marie Moravcova, who hid the paratroopers from the raging Gestapo, MfD writes.

Those buried along with them include Karl Hermann Frank, a Nazi leader who decided that the central Bohemian village of Lidice be razed to the ground in June 1942 in retaliation for the death of Heydrich, the Reichsprotector who planned the Czech nation's liquidation.

morse1001 · 10-04-2007, 12:58 PM

I had always wondered what had happened to their bodies. I thought that they would have been cremated and their ashes schatered to the four winds with no burial ground.

But now a proper and fitting memorial can be raised above their last resting place

**Kyt** · 12-17-2007, 04:12 PM

This is a very interesting and in-depth article on the occupation of Czechoslovakia and the resistance. A great back story to the assassins. Just be aware that it is a very large file (96 pages - 7 mb- with a lot of pictures and so may take some time to load):

http://www.army.cz/images/id_7001_80...ination-en.pdf

**spidge** · 12-17-2007, 06:37 PM

Originally Posted by Kyt

This is a very interesting and in-depth article on the occupation of Czechoslovakia and the resistance. A great back story to the assassins. Just be aware that it is a very large file (96 pages - 7 mb- with a lot of pictures and so may take some time to load):

http://www.army.cz/images/id_7001_80...ination-en.pdf

Loaded in 20 seconds for me however well worth the wait.

Great reference source.

**liverpool annie** · 12-23-2008, 05:27 PM

Originally Posted by spidge

Loaded in 20 seconds for me however well worth the wait.

Great reference source.

I have the book .... The Killing of Reinhard Heydrich By Callum MacDonald

The Killing of Reinhard Heydrich ... - Google Book Search

And I've been trying to find out about Anna Malinova .... this is all I have .... can anybody tell me any more ??

( translated from Czech .... ?? )

The second was a widow Anna Malinová, factory worker residing at Prague's Pankrac. Gabčík even met with Jan Kubišem, and Raspberry Kubiše again with his colleague and friend, Mary Kovarníkovou Letenské street from No. 2 to Klárově. Both women have the knowledge to ensure the Mauthausen death.

2 people named Malinova are included in the Mauthausen/Gusen Death Book ...... but I can't get any further than the index and so can't see them !

Jan Kubis born in 1913 in Trebic district of Moravia (current Czechia). He fled Czechoslovakia during the II World War and got to Great Britain. He was trained there as a parachutist. He was dropped to Czechoslovakia to organise the Czechoslovak Resistance and to orchestrate the assassination of SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich known as "The Butcher of Prague". On May 27th 1942 at approximately 10:30 am Jan Kubis and his commerades mounted an attack on Heydrich's car. As his commerade Sten gun failed to fire Jan Kubis hurled a grenade which exploded against the car. All assasins escaped although Jan was injured. Heavily injured Heydrich died 10 days later. The Gestapo offered 10,000,000 Crowns for information leading to the arrest of the assassins, and eventually the parachutists were betrayed by two of their own team. Jan Kubis and others took refuge at the Church of St Cyril and Methodius (Karel Boromejsky) in Resslova Street, Prague. Nazis learned out about the place and on June 18th, 1942 surrounded the church. Trapped in the crypt parachutists fought untill down following day. The last alive Jan Kubis and Josef Gabcik used their last bullets on each other.

Terrible reprisals followed the assasination. A vilage of Lidice was completly destructed, all men killed, women taken to concentration camps and most of the children taken for adoption in German families. The village had nothing to do with any of the assasins.
Jan Kubis' girlfriend, Anna Malinova, was arrested in the aftermath of the assassination, and died in Mauthausen concentration camp

**Gage** · 01-13-2009, 04:01 PM

There was a very good article in 'After the Battle' magazine No24 on Heydrich's assassination. Only wish I had a scanner.

**Oggie2620** · 02-22-2010, 10:30 AM

Originally Posted by Gage

Only wish I had a scanner.

Try your nearest large library. They usually have scanners. If you are library member its FOC usually and you can access this forum from there too....

Would be interested to read more on this.

Dee