While military governor of Bohemia and Moravia, exercising real executive power above the President and Prime Minister of the so called Protectorate, Heydrich often drove alone in a car with an open roof.
This was typical of the arrogant egotist that Heyditch was.
In the December 1941, two brave Czech soldiers [Gabcik and Kubis], who had escaped to Britain, agreed to return to Prague in an attempt to assassinate the bastard.
On the 27th May 1942 they ambushed Heyditch's car in the Prague suburb of Kobylisy as the car slowed down on a bend.
When the sten that Gapcik was carrying failed to fire, Kubis threw a mills bomb into the car which injured Heyditch but also himself.
Gabcik himself shot the pursueing driver in the leg and made his escape.
Heydrich's injuries were not immediately dangerous. However, the bomb explosion drove fragments from the car seats into his body, including bits of springs and dirty upholstery. This led to massive infections of his internal organs. Despite Himmler sending his best doctors, Heydrich died in a Prague hospital eight days later. The autopsy stated that Heydrich's death was the result of blood poisoning from an infection from the horse hair in the seat.
A poetic end to a real bastard and I wish it could have ended there.
But reprisals started immediately with over 13000 innocent people losing their lives.
As an ajunct to this, the War Cabinet in Britain were reluctant to carry out any more officially sanctioned assassinations.
A pic below of Heyditch with the cruel face that suited him.
A pic of the car he was riding in that day with the number plate SS 3.
Taken from this site
Reinhard Heydrich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia