Jan Kubiš
✶June 24, 1913
†June 18, 1942
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✶June 24, 1913
†June 18, 1942
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Jan Kubiš was a Czech soldier, one of a team of Czechoslovak British-trained paratroopers sent to eliminate acting Reichsprotektor (Realm-Protector) of Bohemia and Moravia, SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, in 1942 as part of Operation Anthropoid. During the assassination attempt, Kubiš threw a makeshift grenade that mortally wounded Heydrich.
Czech soldier and martyr (1913–1942)
Biography from the article Jan Kubiš on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.