On 27 May 1942 in Prague, Reinhard Heydrich – the commander of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), acting governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and a principal architect of the Holocaust – was attacked and wounded in an assassination attempt by Czechoslovak resistance operatives Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš. Heydrich died of his wounds on 4 June 1942. He was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and an important figure in the rise of Adolf Hitler.
The effect of the assassination was great. Everyone was puzzled by the torrents of blood that the Germans were shedding, but it was these that caused Britain to annul the Munich Agreement. After this bloodshed, no one could imagine that Czechs and Germans could live peacefully in one state, and this had an impact on, for example, the post-war expulsion of Germans. The murder of Lidice and Lezak made an impression on the whole of world opinion, and a wave of sympathy for our entire nation arose. In this respect, I have to assess the assassination in an unequivocally positive light. Heydrich was a criminal who received the punishment he deserved.
After its defeat in World War I, Germany ceased to be a monarchy. The so-called Weimar Republic was created. It was in the early 1920s, in the throes of a huge crisis.
As always, extreme forces took advantage of the bleak economic situation. The extreme left, represented by the Communists, grew enormously in importance. Against them, fiercely nationalist forces were forming. Fighting between the Communists and the so-called Freikorps was a daily occurrence on the streets of Germany.
1. Definition of Fascism and Nazism The word fascism is derived from the Latin fasces and is a designation for a bundle of rods tied around an ax, worn in front of ancient officials by ancient officials as a sign of their important social function. We also have the Italian name fascio o otep or bundle, which was used by Italian revolutionaries in the nineteenth century and during the First World War also by many Italian activists engaged in various activities. However, the fascist movement Fasci di Combattimento, which is the subject of this work, originated in Milan on March 23, 1919, when war veterans, futuristic intellectuals and trade unionists, led by Mussolini, met in the Milan Industrial and Trade Union building in Piazza San Sepolcro to "declare the war of socialism because it opposes nationalism ".
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