Was the outcome worth it?

[Egan]

Just found out yesterday when the GF and myself were talking about this, that our friend's grandfather was one of the poor sods rounded up during the reprisals along with every tenth man from his village. He survived but was about the only one.

I am still in two minds about whether it was worth it. Heydrich's policy of playing to the average Czech worker by improving their rations and improving their working conditions, (whilst systematically removing Jews, Homosexuals, Intellectuals, trade unionists from every sphere of private and public life,) was certainly effective in cutting down on resistance in the country. A large part of the thinking behind the assassination was, of course, to force Nazi reprisals and kick start resistance again, and it worked.

The reprisals were utterly barbaric but I think it may well have been the correct option for the Allies. Also, given what I know about Heydrich, plenty of the rest of us benefited from his death. He had also mentioned to friends on at least one occasion that should anything happen to Hitler, he would be ready to 'step in'. I don't even want to imagine what it wold have been like with him as Fuhrer.