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German officers' cars - WW2
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Well, they had the Kubelwagon and other staff cars such as Mercedes. With the latter they wanted to be extravagant and any opportunity to have the hood down then they'd surely take it.
As for assassination, a roof wouldn't necessarily protect them (perhaps from minor debris but not from direct hits) and if anyone was killed by resistance then they'd be reprisals. If anything TV often portrays cars as being bullet proof when any military high velocity rifle/machine gun would have no problem shooting through a door or a roof/window.
yes, it is a mile or two out of Prague.
Not well Marked - about a mile away from the museum that looks like an iced Christmas Cake.
And I am pretty sure his car as open - as it always is in the films.
The Germans did not allow Czechs to operate on him who were not keen anyway as they thought they would get shot if he died. The German imported surgeon did not completely debride the wound, presumably as he thought both of them would die - even tho' incomplete debridement was a death sentence.
he died from infection a day or so later and the post mortem showed bits of horsehair seat stuffing in the wound which had been blown there and not removed. Horsehair is full of Clostridia and its spores.
very badly handled by the germans =- certainly not kleinlich
Reinhard Heydrich was an SS-Obergruppenf�hrer, chief of the Reich Main Security Office, and Reich governor of Bohemia and Moravia. He was nicknamed The Butcher of Prague, The Blond Beast and Der Henker (German for the hangman).
During his role as de facto dictator of Bohemia and Moravia, Heydrich often drove alone in a car with an open roof � a show of confidence in the occupation forces and the effectiveness of their repressive measures against the local population.
On May 27, 1942, a team of British-trained agents of the Czech government in exile carried out the assassination of Heydrich in Operation Anthropoid. Heydrich's car, driven by Klein, had to slow down to take a sharp bend where the Czech team waited. As the car approached, one of the assassins took aim and pulled the trigger of his Sten, but the gun failed and did not fire. Klein, believing him to be alone, stopped to shoot at him. Heydrich stood up and took out his pistol, trying to shoot the assassin. Another assassin then threw an anti-tank grenade at the car. This exploded and severely wounded Heydrich, forcing car seat material including horse hair into his spleen. Evidence suggests that if Heydrich had remained seated, he would have lived.
Despite Himmler sending his best doctors, Heydrich died in agony in a Prague hospital at 4:30 a.m. on June 4 at the age of 38. Although the exact cause of death has not been definitively established, the autopsy states that Heydrich's death was most likely septicemia caused by bacteria and toxins from grenade splinters.
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