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Hello and welcome to another World War II podcast, I'm Angus Wallace.

I'd seen the 1975 film Operation Daybreak and was aware of the assassination of Ryan

Art Heinrich, but what I wasn't aware of was Liddezza and the Staffordshire

Miners. That was until Russell Phillips shot me an email. Thanks for joining me Russell.

It's coincidental that we're chatting about this when the film Anthropoid, which is based on the mission has just been released.

We'll get to the Staffordshire miners, but first let's tell the story of Reinhart Heinrich.

Who was he? What's his background?

His family was reasonably well off. His dad was a composer and run a music conservatory.

They weren't aristocracy, but they weren't poor either.

So yeah, I think middle class is probably a reasonable sort of term.

The rumor about him being Jewish came about because his grandmother had married a man

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