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How did Reinhard Heydrich die?

  • He was shot

  • He was poisoned

  • He died from injuries sustained in an ambush

  • He committed suicide

Answer

Heydrich succumbed to injuries sustained in an ambush orchestrated by Czech resistance fighters. On May 27, 1942, operatives Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabčík intercepted his car in Prague, deploying a bomb rigged onto a bicycle. Heydrich perished from the wounds incurred in this daring assassination attempt, known as Operation Anthropoid, on June 4, 1942.
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