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The Hangman of Prague

In the days of war and Nazi conquest

Deep in the heart of the Third Reich

Was a man so cold and ruthless

That the fuhrer proclaimed had a heart of Iron

 

Hangman Heydrich ruled a nation

Of several million innocent Czechs

Controlling them with an Iron grip

Signs of resistance spelled their death

 

Himmlers deputy performed with efficiency

The darker parts of Nazi ideology

Together at Wannsee with Eichmann at his side

Heydrich sowed the seeds of Jewish genocide

 

The blonde beast filled with swagger

Gave authority for eugenic science

Obeying the orders of a ranting fanatic

By preparing the gene pool for an Aryan nation

 

But the exiled Czech government could see the threat

Of Heydrich's idea of work efficiency

By bribing with food, the enslaved nation

Increased industrial output was part of the equation

 

Training Czech agents to take him out

A suicide mission but important to all

They were flown to Czechoslovakia under hostile skies

Knowing to assasinate a tyrant was a ticket to die

 

Parachuted into countryside where the resistance were placed

They were driven into Prague to plan their tactics

Finding that the hangman took the same car route

The assasins with weapons soon took note

 

Waiting in a street at a precarious bend

They eagerly awaited their target

Just as the car came round the corner

One of the agents fired but the machine gun jammed

 

Knowing he was in danger Heydrich fired back

But a bomb was thrown which instantly ignited

The agents plan soon turned into a bit of a debacle

Leaving clues behind with their guns and a pedal cycle

 

The injured beast was taken to a hospital bed

Where he soon succumbed to poisonng of the blood

The blonde beast of the SS soon lost his life

In Prague marshal law was declared the city suffered strife

 

The agents in danger took refuge in a church

Where they were given sanctuary of mind

But they were soon betrayed by one of their own

One of the agents confessed to the gestapo of their shameful crime

 

Confined in the church, the agents were surrounded

By SS and gestapo filling the group with terror

Soon confined in the chapels cellar

They were faced with drowning, till they mercy killed one another

 

With the perpetrators dead the city could breathe

With all restrictions lifted, Prague could relax

But reprisals in Lidice was the price to pay

For the murder of a Nazi henchman the blood letting was great

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M.C. Newberry

Thu 17th Oct 2013 14:21

Extraordinary how the best laid plans and the
rigorous training can be ruined by something
so mundane as a "jammed" weapon. Having read
accounts of this mission, I'm amazed that an
automatic weapon had no immediate heavy calibre
(.45 ??)revolver back-up...as the latter was
rarely prone to failure. Even Colonel Colt's
famous old Peacemaker was made with tolerances
allowing it to fall into mud and dust and fire without failing. The grenade that drove foreign matter into Heydrich's body was literally "hit and miss", in retrospect and
his subsequent death from the blood poisoning
that resulted was certainly more chance than design.
The ghastly Nazi revenge at Lidice was "par for
the course" as far as reprisals for killing
their personnel (let alone such a prominent
hate figure) was concerned. They did this sort
of thing all over the place in occupied
territories.

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