Karel Čurda



Karel Čurda (10 October 1911 – 29 April 1947) was a Czech World War II soldier from the Czechoslovak army in exile. He was parachuted into the protectorate in 1942 as a member of the sabotage group Out Distance. He is known for his betrayal of the Czech and Slovak assassins of top Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich in Prague through Operation Anthropoid.

His reward was 500,000 Reichsmarks and a new identity, "Karl Jerhot". He married a German woman and spent the rest of the war as a Gestapo spy.

After the war, Čurda was tracked down, captured after attempting suicide, found guilty of treason at Pankrác Prison and hanged there.