Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
Reinhard Heydrich, the commander of the German Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), the acting governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and a principal architect of the Holocaust, was assassinated during the Second World War in a coordinated operation by the Czechoslovak resistance. The assassination attempt, code-named Operation Anthropoid, was carried out by resistance operatives Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš on 27 May 1942. Heydrich was wounded in the attack and died of his injuries on 4 June.
Heydrich's Typ 320 damaged by the anti-tank grenade
Reinhard Heydrich, the target of Operation Anthropoid, in 1940
Jozef Gabčík
Jan Kubiš
Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich was a high-ranking German SS and police official during the Nazi era and a principal architect of the Holocaust.
Heydrich in 1940
Heydrich as a Reichsmarine cadet in 1922
Gestapo headquarters on Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse in Berlin, 1933
SS-Brigadeführer Heydrich, head of the Bavarian police and SD, in Munich, 1934