Operation Anthropoid - The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich

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Description: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Reinhard_Heydrich

Descripcion foto: Operation Anthropoid was the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich (the principal architect of the Holocaust) by Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš (two operatives prepared and trained in Great Britain and parachuted into Czechoslovakia). It was initiated and approved by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile and it was the only verified government-sponsored assassination of a senior Nazi leader during the Second World War. At 10:30 on 27 May 1942, Heydrich started his daily commute to Prague Castle. A tight curve on the way forced Heydrich's car to slow down and in that moment Gabčík raised his Sten submachine gun, trying to shoot Heydrich at close range, but the gun jammed. Heydrich stood up and drew his Luger pistol, yelling at his driver to halt. As the Mercedes braked in front of him, Kubiš threw a modified anti-tank grenade at the car, severely wounding Heydrich when it detonated. Both paratroopers reached a safe house, from where both would later hide in the Ss. Cyril and Methodius Cathedral, where they would be found by the Gestapo and, after a long battle, died. Heydrich died from his wounds on 4 June. Immediately after Hitler ordered an investigation and reprisals: 5,000 people were murdered, and more than 13,000 were arrested. The villages of Lidice and Ležáky, suspected of hiding the paratroopers, were burned and all their population killed or deported.

Website: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Operation_Anthropoid#/media/File:Anthropoid_27_may_1942.jpg

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Fecha: 1942.05.27

Copyright: German Federal Archives, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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