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The assassination attempt, code-named Operation Anthropoid, was carried out by resistance operatives Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš on 27 May 1942. [2] Heydrich was wounded in the attack [3] and died of his injuries on 4 June. [2]
Mar 18, 2024 · During Operation Anthropoid, Nazi Reinhard Hydrich, who was responsible for the murder of many civilians, was assassinated in Prague in 1942.
Apr 21, 2022 · Operation Anthropoid was the only successful assassination of a Nazi leader during World War II when the Czech resistance killed Reinhard Heydrich in 1942. After everything went wrong, the assassins pulled out their secret weapon: an anti-tank grenade.
- Kara Goldfarb
Sep 6, 2021 · The plot to kill Reinhard Heydrich, the merciless SS Obergruppenführer in charge of Bohemia and Moravia (today’s Czech Republic), has all the ingredients of a thriller.
- Military History
Heydrich was mortally wounded in Prague on 27 May 1942 as a result of Operation Anthropoid. He was ambushed by a team of Czech and Slovak soldiers who had been sent by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile to kill him; the team was trained by the British Special Operations Executive .
Anthropoid was the only successful assassination of a senior Nazi leader during World War II. Heydrich was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and an important figure in the rise of Adolf Hitler; as a Nazi potentate, he was given overall charge of the so-called Final Solution (Holocaust) of the Jews in Europe.
The result was Operation Anthropoid, the elimination of the Butcher of Prague. Secrecy was paramount to make the assassination appear to be “a spontaneous act of national desperation.” Only a very few would be told of the operation.
