SS-3: The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich

3rd June 1992 50 mins Season 11 Episode 8

On Wednesday 27 May 1942, two assassins waited for a German staff car to round a hairpin bend in a suburb of Prague. Their target was SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, the architect of the "final solution". Heydrich was considered the most dangerous man in Nazi Germany after Hitler himself, and the plot was masterminded in England. Fifty years on, Timewatch examines the planning of the daring operation and the terrible reprisals it provoked.

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Season 11 · Episode 9

Gladio: 1: The Ringmasters

For 40 years the Gladio - a secret network of former Nazis originally tasked with resisting the communist threat in occupied territories at the end of the Second World War - has bombed and murdered scores of innocent civilians to keep control of Europe for their political masters. This documentary reveals the crucial role the CIA has played in manipulating the political affairs of post-war Europe through the Gladio. Part 1 of 3.

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