Jan Kubiš
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Jan Kubiš was a Czech soldier, one of a team of Czechoslovak British-trained paratroopers sent to eliminate acting Reichsprotektor (Realm-Protector) of Bohemia and Moravia, SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, in 1942 as part of Operation Anthropoid. During the assassination attempt, Kubiš threw a makeshift grenade that mortally wounded Heydrich.
Jan Kubiš
Bullet-scarred window of the Church of St Cyril and St Methodious in Prague where Kubiš and his compatriots were cornered
Reinhard Heydrich
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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