Assassination (1965)

Assassination (1965) - War Movies 104 minutes. 10 Uhr 30: Attentat, Sieben Mann im Morgengrauen. In autumn 1941, Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich’s brutal rule in occupied Bohemia and Moravia fuels Czech resistance. In spring 1942, the government-in-exile sends trained paratroopers led by Lt. Král on a mission to assassinate him. Masters Strnad and Vyskočil ambush Heydrich’s open Mercedes in Prague’s Libeň district, mortally wounding him despite a jammed submachine gun. Their success triggers harsh Nazi reprisals, mass executions, and an intense manhunt for the operatives. world war ii, based on true story, czech history, assassination of reinhard heydrich (1942), lidice massacre