Col. Aleš Knížek, director of Military History Institute in Prague, col. Martin Mlčoch, Deputy Director of MHI, col. Michal Burian (the exhibition originated under his supervision) and historian Zdeněk Špitálník attended the exhibition opening in Tallinn. Military attaché LtCol. Tomáš Říman, Deputy Military Attaché Martin Psík and H.E. Gabriela Tománková, Czech Ambassador to Estonia were also present at the opening. A director of the Estonian War Museum, Mr. Hellmer Lill, thanked MHI for cooperation and expressed hope that this exhibition is only the first step for mutual future cooperation. In addition, LtCol. Tomáš Říman noted in his speech that this exhibition was previously on display also in Lithuania and Latvia. Zdeněk Špitálník, an expert on the subject of assassination of Heydrich also gave a speech at the opening. During the exhibition opening, the audience could watch two short excerpts from a movie called The Assassination from 1964, directed by Jiri Sequens. Moreover, a representative of the Estonian armed forces, a British military attaché, representative of the Jewish community in Tallinn, members of the diplomatic corps and general public interested in the topic attended the exhibition opening.

The focus of the exhibition is the most important Czechoslovak resistance action from the World War II, and one of the largest resistance actions in occupied Europe, so-called Operation Anthropoid, which was the assassination of reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, took place on 27 May 1942 in Prague. This military operation was part of a foreign and domestic resistance, and the main participants of this heroic act were the exile Czechoslovak army paratroopers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš. The assassination resulted in brutal retaliation - thousands of Czech patriots were executed and the whole village of Lidice was burnt down.

The exhibition, installed on fourteen panels reminds the events of the war years 1939-1945. The core of the exhibition describes the events from the autumn of 1941, when Reinhard Heydrich as an Acting Reich protector came to Prague to May 1942, when the assassination took place. Exhibition panels introduce the preparation of the assassination, its execution by members of Czechoslovak foreign units, liaison with domestic resistance and so on.

An important part of the exhibition is devoted to Heydrich himself and his plans for the so-called final solution of the Jewish question, as he was the principal author and worked on it since 1939. In a wider context, the exhibition also presents the relations between Czechoslovak, respectively Czech and Jewish people, and later the state of Israel during the 20th century. The exhibition also tells a story of former Czechoslovak president T.G. Masaryk, who was one of the main advocates of the so-called Hilsner affair (1899-1900) and finishes up at the end of 1940s, when Czechoslovakia provided weapon shipments to the newly founded state of Israel.

Aside from text and image documents, accurate replicas of certain objects directly related to the assassination itself make up another important part of the exhibition. These objects were also used in the movie Anthropoid.

The exhibition will be open to the public until 20 June 2018.

Estonian journal Postimees published an article about the exhibition opening:

https://tallinn.postimees.ee/4492570/fotod-sojamuuseumis-avati-naitus-heydrichi-tapmisest?gallery=124281&image=7858489

You can see photographs from the event below.