Heydrich dies of injuries from assassination attempt against him

Source: ranger.wz.cz Heydrich's car after the assassination

Reinhard Heydrich, the feared chief of the Main Office of Reich Security and deputy governor of the „Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia“, dies on 4 June 1942 of injuries sustained in an assassination attempt against him. The assassins, who were cornered in a church by the SS and killed in a gun fight, had received their assignment from the Czech exile government in London. In retaliation for the murder of Heydrich the Czech village of Lidice near Prague is destroyed by the SS. All male inhabitants over 15 years of age are shot to death, and the women and children are carried off to concentration camps.

Source: archiv.radio.cz The men of Lidice, murdered by the SS