HFOTD: 27 May 1942

On this day in 1942, notorious Nazi, Reinhard Heydrich is assassinated in Prague. Seeing as he was one of those that helped plan and execute the Holocaust and was the leader of the Gestapo, the exiled Czechoslovakian government wanted him dead. The two would-be assassins were trained by British forces and were waiting for Heydrich in Prague when his open-top car passed by. Though he was mortally wounded, he would not die until June 2nd, and not from the wounds he sustained in the assassin, but from infection from conflicting ideas of his medical team.

For information on Heydrich click here, for the CIA report click here, or for a book on the assassination click here.