Eduard Benes1941
Benes and Frantisek Moravec plan Operation Anthropoid, with the intention of assassinating Reinhard Heydrich
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Benes and Frantisek Moravec plan Operation Anthropoid, with the intention of assassinating Reinhard Heydrich
Is mortally wounded by Czechoslovak parachutists.
Operation Anthropoid results in brutal German reprisals such as the execution of thousands of Czechs and the eradication of two villages of Lidice and Lezaky
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