On this date, 27 May 1942,
Operation Anthropoid was carried out. It was the code name for the
assassination of SS Leader, Reinhard Heydrich. I will post the information
about the event from Wikipedia and other links.
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The open-top Mercedes
in which Heydrich was mortally wounded
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Operational
scope
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Assassination
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Location
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Prague, Protectorate of
Bohemia and Moravia (today Czech Republic)
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Planned
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December 1941–May 1942
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Planned by
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Special Operations Executive
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Target
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Reinhard Heydrich
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Date
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27 May 1942
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Executed by
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Outcome
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Heydrich dies from his wounds, 4 June; Nazis order
reprisals
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Operation Anthropoid was the code name for the assassination of SS-Obergruppenführer
and General der Polizei Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt
(Reich Main Security Office, RSHA), the combined security services of Nazi
Germany, and acting Reichsprotektor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and
Moravia. The operation was carried out in Prague on 27 May 1942 after having
been prepared by the British Special Operations Executive with the approval of
the Czechoslovak government-in-exile. Although only wounded in the attack,
Heydrich died of his injuries on 4 June 1942. His death led to a wave of
merciless reprisals by German SS troops, including the destruction of villages
and the killing of civilians.
Heydrich
had been a key player in the rise of Adolf Hitler; as a Nazi potentate, he was
given overall charge of the Final Solution and the Holocaust of the Jews in
Europe. Despite the risks, the primary purpose of Anthropoid, from the
Czech perspective, was to confer legitimacy on Edvard Beneš's
government-in-exile in London.
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