How Two Czechs Killed Reinhard Heydrich

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]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.

[00:00:07]They called it Operation Anthropoid.

[00:00:10]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.

[00:00:29]The assassins were eventually betrayed and killed in a church basement.