Reinhard Heydrich got what was coming to him. On May 27, 1942, his car was stopped at a hairpin turn in the Prague neighborhood of Libeň by a man wielding a Sten machine gun. The gun jammed, and as ...

On 27 May 1942, as Heydrich's open-top Mercedes limousine slowed to round a hairpin bend in Prague, Gabcik - armed with a Sten sub-machine gun - leapt in front of the car and pulled the trigger.

Instead of making a quick escape, Heydrich ordered his driver to stop the car and tried to shoot Gabčík. Kubiš then lobbed an anti-tank mine at the Mercedes, which exploded on impact ...

Heydrich was wrong. Waiting near a tram stop as Heydrich’s car approach were the instruments of justice. Jozef Gabcik and Jan Kubis would be the sword arm of Operation Anthropoid, a Czech ...

The May 1942 assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Germany's Reichsprotektor for Bohemia and Moravia, altered the course of World War II. Anthropoid (in theaters August 12) tells the story of the ...

Heydrich was wrong. Waiting near a tram stop as Heydrich’s car approach were the instruments of justice. Jozef Gabcik and Jan Kubis would be the sword arm of Operation Anthropoid, a Czech ...