&lt;p&gt;Josef Gabnik, a Czech resistance fighter and parachutist who participated in the assassination of &lt;a href=&quot;/narrative/10812/en&quot;&gt;Reinhard Heydrich&lt;/a&gt;, the Nazi governor of Bohemia and Moravia. Prague, Czechoslovakia, probably May 1942.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gabcik was one of the&nbsp;Czech agents who had trainined in Great Britain and then parachuted into German-occupied Czech territory to assassinate Heydrich. As Heydrich traveled on a familiar route to the airport to fly to Hitler&#039;s headquarters for a meeting, two agents succeeded in rolling a hand grenade under his car. Though not mortally wounded by the blast itself, the grenade splinters in Heydrich&rsquo;s leg and lower back led to an infection that killed him little more than a week later. In retaliation for the attack, the Germans unleashed a wave of terror against the Czechs. For example, they destroyed the Czech village of &lt;a href=&quot;/narrative/11788/en&quot;&gt;Lidice&lt;/a&gt;, shooting all the men in the village and deporting most of the women and children to camps in Germany.&lt;/p&gt;