In May 1942, two Czech paratroopers executed Operation Anthropoid, assassinating Reinhard Heydrich—the architect of the Holocaust and Hitler's heir apparent—by ambushing his car in Prague; despite their Sten gun jamming at point-blank range, the second assassin's anti-tank grenade caused fatal injuries to Heydrich's spine, though both assassins were eventually betrayed and killed in a church basement.
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How Two Czechs Killed Reinhard HeydrichAdded:
Two paratroopers assassinated the third most powerful man [music] in Nazi Germany using a Sten gun that jammed and a grenade the size of a tennis ball.
They called it Operation Anthropoid.
Reinhard Heydrich, architect of the Holocaust, called the Hangman of Prague, was Hitler's heir apparent. In May 1942, two Czech soldiers ambushed [music] his open-top car. The Sten gun jammed at point-blank range. The second man threw an anti-tank grenade. The blast drove force air from the seat into [music] Heydrich's spine. He died a week later.
The assassins were eventually betrayed and killed in a church basement.
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