The most senior Nazi official assassinated during World War II was Reinhard Heydrich, killed in Prague by Czechoslovak resistance operatives under orders from the government in exile in London. Heydrich was particularly nasty, even for a Nazi, and he had been in charge of the Nazi-occupied Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. His assassination led to huge reprisals, including destruction of entire villages suspected of harboring any resistance parachutists, along with the killing of literally thousands in Prague and elsewhere in the region.
The assassination operation was codenamed Operation Anthropoid, and is the subject of an excellent 2016 film called Anthropoid. I read a book last year about the operation, and before coming on this current trip I watched the movie, which was available on Amazon Prime Video, in case you want to see it too.
Anthropoid
adjective
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
1. Of or belonging to the primate suborder Anthropoidea, which consists of the New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, and apes including humans.
2. Resembling a human, especially in shape or outward appearance.
3. Resembling or characteristic of a nonhuman ape; apelike.
Colleen and I visited the Orthodox church where the paratroopers had been hiding after the assassination, and where they were eventually found and killed. There was no escape plan provided from London, so it was really a suicide mission. I also journeyed to the northeast side of the city to see where the assassination took place and where there is now a memorial to the paratroopers. In the attack, Heydrich was originally only injured because the machine gun of one assassin jammed and didn’t fire, and the ad hoc bomb the other assassin threw didn’t land in the car, but instead blew up outside the vehicle. Heydrich died in the hospital about a week later of his shrapnel injuries, despite seeming to actually be getting better. Perhaps a hospital conspirator? Who knows. Anyway, he did die, and the reaction was swift and huge. Czechs today overall seem justifiably proud of their resistance efforts against the Nazis. Someone had to fight back, eh?
In the end, it was one of the Czech resistance members who betrayed the others due to his concern about all the reprisals taking place. After the war he was tried for treason and executed. What a terrible, terrible thing that war is.
Today’s bonus note: Speaking of that, I found a Ukrainian children’s channel on TV. I don’t recall this channel from last time, and so I presume that this was added so that Ukrainian refugee families in Czechia can have some TV entertainment for kids available in the Ukrainian language.
Today’s travel quote:
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Major Meander 
Thanks for the disturbing history lesson illustrating the insanity of war.