BirthFactDeath (x) Tuesday 27th of May 1941 83 years ago |
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37-year-old Nazi leader and SS-Gruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in an assault by Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabčík in Heydrich's bend, Vychovatelna, Libeň, Praha, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia. The Czechoslovak government-in-exile in London resolved to kill Heydrich in Operation Anthropoid. Heydrich survived with severe injuries to his left side, with major damage to his diaphragm, spleen, and lung and a fractured rib. Heydrich slipped in a coma on 2 June and died on 4 June 1941. More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Anthropoid |
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