Karel Čurda

Karel Čurda
Karel Čurda

Karel Čurda (October 10, 1911, Nová Hlína near Třeboň – April 29, 1947, Prague) was a Czech World War II soldier from the Czechoslovak army in exile. He was parachuted into the protectorate in 1941 as a member of the sabotage group Out Distance. He is known for his betrayal of the Czecho-Slovak assassins of top Nazi Reinhard Heydrich in Prague (see Operation Anthropoid).[1]

His reward was 0.5 million Reichsmark and a new identity "Karl Jerhot". He married a German woman and spent the rest of the war as a Gestapo spy.

After the war, Čurda was captured and hanged for treason at Pankrác Prison.[2][3]

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich", The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team
  2. ^ 'Czech Traitors Hanged Today", 1947, The Free Lance-Star
  3. ^ "Trial and terror in a by-gone Prague", 2007, The Telegraph



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