Enormously popular in France, HHhH has now been deftly translated from the French by Sam Taylor. Thus ended Operation Anthropoid, the plot to assassinate SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, nicknamed “the Butcher of Prague” and “the Blond Beast,” Protector of the Reich of Bohemia and Moravia, chief of the Einsatzgruppen (the Nazi secret services and its paramilitary death squads) and author of the Final Solution.įrench writer Laurent Binet has crafted his breathtaking debut novel, HHhH, winner of the 2010 Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman and Prix des Lecteurs du Livres de Poche, around the personalities and events of Operation Anthropoid, whose acronym in German was “HHhH,” Himmlers Hirn heißt Heydrich. Seventy years ago, on June 18, 1942, 800 SS stormtroopers took eight hours to kill seven Czech and Slovak freedom fighters sheltered in a cathedral in the heart of Prague.
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