Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
On 27 May 1942, Reinhard Heydrich the commander of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), acting governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and a principal architect of the Holocaust was attacked and wounded in an assassination attempt in Prague by Czechoslovak resistance operatives Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš. He died of the wounds sustained on 4 June 1942. Heydrich was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and an important figure in the rise of Adolf Hitler.