On
this date, 29 April 1947, a traitor to the Czech Resistance, Karel Curda was
executed by hanging. I will post the information about him from Wikipedia.
Karel Čurda
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Karel Čurda (10 October 1911 –
29 April 1947) was a Czech World War II soldier from the Czechoslovak army in
exile. He was parachuted into the protectorate in 1942 as a member of the
sabotage group Out Distance. He is known for his betrayal of the Czech
and Slovak assassins of top Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich in Prague through
Operation Anthropoid.
His rewards were 1,000,000 Reichsmarks 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 tracked down and
arrested. When asked in court how he could betray his comrades, Čurda answered,
"I think you would have done the same for 1 million marks." Karel
Čurda found guilty of treason and hanged on April 29, 1947.
HHhH is a great book about the assassination of Heydrich
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