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Bleeding and stunned, Heydrich tried to give chase before collapsing. The assassins fled into the labyrinth of Prague.

Gabčík and Kubiš were not just soldiers; they were the tip of a spear forged by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile and the British Special Operations Executive. Their mission, codenamed Operation Anthropoid, was as simple as it was suicidal: eliminate the architect of the Final Solution. OperaciГіn Anthropoid

The following story details the events of Operation Anthropoid, the mission to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich during WWII. Bleeding and stunned, Heydrich tried to give chase

The Nazi retaliation was swift and monstrous. Martial law was declared. The villages of Lidice and Ležáky were wiped off the map, their residents murdered or sent to concentration camps. Their mission, codenamed Operation Anthropoid, was as simple

The silence of the Bohemian night was shattered only by the whistling wind as Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš tumbled from the belly of a British Halifax bomber. It was December 1941. Below them lay the occupied Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, a land suffocating under the iron grip of the man known as the Butcher of Prague: Reinhard Heydrich.

At first, it seemed the mission had failed. Heydrich was alive. But the "Butcher" would not survive the infection caused by the horsehair and upholstery debris lodged in his wounds. On June 4, he died.