Out Distance, the Glossary
Operation Out Distance was a Czech resistance group active during World War II.[1]
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23 relations: Adolf Opálka, Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Škoda Works, Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, Czechoslovak government-in-exile, Czechoslovakia, Gestapo, Handley Page Halifax, Hanging, Ivan Kolařík, Karel Čurda, Ořechov (Jihlava District), Pankrác Prison, Plzeň, Prague, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Reichsmark, Reinhard Heydrich, Resistance in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Saints Cyril and Methodius Cathedral, Schutzstaffel, Treason, World War II.
- Czech resistance groups
- Czechoslovak soldiers
- Operation Anthropoid
- People killed by Nazi Germany
Adolf Opálka
First Lieutenant Adolf Opálka (4 January 1915 – 18 June 1942) was a Czechoslovak soldier, member of the Czech sabotage group Out Distance, a World War II anti-Nazi resistance group, and a participant in Operation Anthropoid, the successful mission to kill Reinhard Heydrich. Out Distance and Adolf Opálka are Czechoslovak soldiers and operation Anthropoid.
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Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
Reinhard Heydrich, the commander of the German Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), the acting governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and a principal architect of the Holocaust, was assassinated during the Second World War in a coordinated operation by the Czechoslovak resistance. Out Distance and Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich are operation Anthropoid.
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Škoda Works
The Škoda Works (Škodovy závody) was one of the largest European industrial conglomerates of the 20th century, founded by Czech engineer Emil Škoda in 1859 in Plzeň, called the Kingdom of Bohemia at that time.
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Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy
In World War II, many governments, organizations and individuals collaborated with the Axis powers, "out of conviction, desperation, or under coercion." Nationalists sometimes welcomed German or Italian troops they believed would liberate their countries from colonization.
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Czechoslovak government-in-exile
The Czechoslovak government-in-exile, sometimes styled officially as the Provisional Government of Czechoslovakia (Prozatímní vláda Československa; Dočasná vláda Československa), was an informal title conferred upon the Czechoslovak National Liberation Committee (Výbor Československého Národního Osvobození; Československý Výbor Národného Oslobodenia), initially by British diplomatic recognition. Out Distance and Czechoslovak government-in-exile are Czech resistance groups.
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Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a landlocked state in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary.
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Gestapo
The Geheime Staatspolizei, abbreviated Gestapo, was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe.
Handley Page Halifax
The Handley Page Halifax is a British Royal Air Force (RAF) four-engined heavy bomber of the Second World War.
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Hanging
Hanging is killing a person by suspending them from the neck with a noose or ligature.
Ivan Kolařík
Ivan Kolařík (22 March 1920, Valašské Meziříčí – 1 April 1942, Vizovice) was a Czechoslovak soldier and member of the anti-Nazi resistance group Out Distance. Out Distance and Ivan Kolařík are operation Anthropoid.
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Karel Čurda
Karel Čurda was a Czech resistance fighter who later became a Nazi collaborator during World War II. Out Distance and Karel Čurda are Czechoslovak soldiers and operation Anthropoid.
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Ořechov (Jihlava District)
Ořechov is a municipality and village in Jihlava District in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic.
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Pankrác Prison
Pankrác Prison, officially Prague Pankrác Remand Prison (Vazební věznice Praha Pankrác) in Czech), is a prison in Prague, Czech Republic. A part of the Czech Prison Service, it is located southeast of Prague city centre in Pankrác, not far from Pražského povstání metro station on Line C.
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Plzeň
Plzeň, also known in English and German as Pilsen, is a city in the Czech Republic.
Prague
Prague (Praha) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia.
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was a partially-annexed territory of Nazi Germany that was established on 16 March 1939 after the German occupation of the Czech lands.
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Reichsmark
The Reichsmark (sign: ℛ︁ℳ︁; abbreviation: RM) was the currency of Germany from 1924 until the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945, and in the American, British and French occupied zones of Germany, until 20 June 1948.
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Reinhard Heydrich
Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was a high-ranking German SS and police official during the Nazi era and a principal architect of the Holocaust. Out Distance and Reinhard Heydrich are operation Anthropoid.
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Resistance in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Czechoslovak resistance to the German occupation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia during World War II began after the occupation of the rest of Czechoslovakia and the formation of the protectorate on 15 March 1939.
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Saints Cyril and Methodius Cathedral
The Saints Cyril and Methodius Cathedral (Pravoslavný chrám svatého Cyrila a Metoděje) in Nové Město, Prague, the Czech Republic, is the principal Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church. Out Distance and Saints Cyril and Methodius Cathedral are operation Anthropoid.
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Schutzstaffel
The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylised as ᛋᛋ with Armanen runes) was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.
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Treason
Treason is the crime of attacking a state authority to which one owes allegiance.
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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See also
Czech resistance groups
- Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
- Czechoslovak government-in-exile
- Jan Žižka partisan brigade
- Obrana národa
- Operation Clay
- Out Distance
- Three Kings (Czech anti-Nazi resistance)
Czechoslovak soldiers
- Adolf Opálka
- Alois Eliáš
- Alois Liška
- Bedřich Reicin
- František Moravec
- Ján Golian
- Jan Syrový
- Josef Buršík
- Josef Sousedík
- Josef Valčík
- Jozef Gabčík
- Karel Čurda
- Kurt Epstein
- Otakar Jaroš
- Out Distance
- Radola Gajda
- Rudolf Krzák
- Rudolf Pernický
- Václav Morávek
Operation Anthropoid
- Adolf Opálka
- Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
- Ivan Kolařík
- Jan Kubiš
- Josef Valčík
- Jozef Gabčík
- Karel Čurda
- Ležáky
- Lidice massacre
- Operation Anthropoid Memorial
- Out Distance
- Reinhard Heydrich
- Rudolf Krzák
- Saints Cyril and Methodius Cathedral
People killed by Nazi Germany
- Arthur Kaufmann
- Bruno Lüdke
- Elena Shirman
- Fernande Volral
- Gertrud von Puttkamer
- Josef Valčík
- Kasriel Broydo
- Kazimierz Zakrzewski
- List of victims of Nazism
- Martin Kochmann
- Out Distance
- Walter Schütz
- Wilhelm Stein