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Reinhard
Heydrich, acting governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and
Moravia, was driving to Prague on May 27. At 10:30 a.m., two Czech
parachutists, who had been trained in England, attacked him at a
bend in the road and wounded him seriously with a hand grenade. Two
hours after the attack, Hitler issued orders to execute 10,000
Czechs, and he raised this figure to 30,000 after Heydrich died on
June 4.
The
assassins went into hiding in a church in Prague. They were
discovered after denunciation and fell on June 18 after a fierce
battle. After they were killed, the mass reprisal order was
postponed and subsequently revoked.
On June 10,
1942, the Czech town of Lidice was liquidated, in response to the
assassination. |
