5/15/2023 0 Comments Binet laurent hhhhTake, for example, the excruciating pause that occurs when Gabčík and Kubiš have bombed Heydrich’s car, thus inflicting what will soon become his mortal wounds. Given the previous paragraph (along with the historical record) sums up much of the story’s plot, including its ending, we find ourselves facing the same question that all historical story-tellers do: How does a writer present a compelling story that the audience already knows? Binet’s response seems to be by supplying his own viewpoint into history, and in so doing, he sometimes finds it impossible to keep out of the story himself. (If this reaction seems extreme, even by Nazi standards, readers should bear in mind that Heydrich was among the architects of “The Final Solution” and a man whose bloodlust was so renowned that his fellow Nazis allegedly often said of him that “ Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich”-Heinrich Himmler’s brain is called Heydrich-hence the story’s acronymic title.) The assassination succeeded, if not exactly as planned, though both Gabčík and Kubiš were killed as a result and an entire nearby village, Lidice, was pillaged and razed by Nazi forces in retaliation. Laurent Binet’s HHhH follows Operation Anthropoid, the Allied plot to assassinate SS-Obergrüppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich by Slovak warrant officer Jozef Gabčík and Czech staff sergeant Jan Kubiš.
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