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thedevilsguard:

Gebirgsjäger, Norway.

unhistorical:

May 27, 1942: An assassination attempt on Reinhard Heydrich is carried out in Prague.

While serving as Acting Reich Protector of Bohemia in Moravia (in the place of Konstantin von Neurath, who he viewed as too “soft” on the Czechs), Reinhard Heydrich earned the nickname “the Butcher of Prague” for his brutal efficiency in dealing with local resistance. The Czech government-in-exile, then based in London, selected Heydrich as a target for assassination in 1941. Later that year, a British-trained group of Czechoslovak soldiers led by Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš were airlifted into Czechoslovakia to carry out the assassination attempt - code-named Operation Anthropoid. 

On the morning of May 27, 1942, Heydrich was making his daily commute from the town of Panenské Břežany to Prague Castle in an open-topped car, when he was stopped by one of the Czech agents.  Gabčík fired at Heydrich, and Kubiš threw a grenade at his vehicle, launching shrapnel at the passengers; Heydrich, though injured, gave chase to the assassins before collapsing from shock. The assassins escaped believing that their attempt on Heydrich’s life had failed.

They needn’t have worried, however - Heydrich died from his injuries a week later. The subsequent retaliation on nearby villages was swift and severe, to put it lightly.

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