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Car of Reinhard Heydrich after attack of the Czechoslovak paratroopers.

Reinhard Heydrich got what was coming to him. On May 27, 1942, his car was stopped at a hairpin turn in the Prague neighborhood of Libeň by a man wielding a Sten machine gun. The gun jammed, and as Heydrich got up to shoot the would-be assassin, another man lobbed a hand grenade in his direction, exploding next to the wheel behind him with fatal results.

Heydrich, also known as the “Butcher of Prague,” was the de facto Reichsprotektor — Hitler’s point man for Bohemia and Moravia at the beginning of World War II. He ruled the country (Slovakia, led by the fascist Jozef Tiso, had declared independence from the former Czecho-Slovakia before the war even started) with an iron fist, and his assassination couldn’t come quickly enough for most Czechs.

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