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...early morning long ago, before Hitler was master of Germany, the late Hangman Reinhard Heydrich rushed to see his Führer on a matter of desperate urgency. He tramped through an anteroom to the Führer's bedroom and. with his usual disregard of anything that stood in his way, drove his heavy boot into the body of a man who was lying in front of Adolf Hitler's door to protect him from assassination...
...hours after its ultimatum to the Czechs had expired, Heinrich Himmler's Gestapo unbagged a weasel that smelled to heaven. The assassins of Reinhard Heydrich, announced the Gestapo, had been discovered in a Prague church and "shot while resisting arrest." Snorted the BBC: "Embittered and frightened by Czech resistance, Nazi authorities let themselves indulge in vain and useless threats...
...carrying the TIME front-cover jinx too far to suggest that [the Gestapo's late Reinhard] Heydrich appeared very recently...
...Germans accused the onetime people of Lidice of routine subversive activities, such as hiding arms and hoarding food. But the deadliest charge against them was that they aided and sheltered the killers of the Gestapo's hangman, Reinhard Heydrich. Besides the slaughter in Lidice, the Germans by week's end had shot 400 Czechs in reprisal for Heydrich's death. They had offered an "appropriate" reward to the informant who would identify Heydrich's executioners. They gave the informant until Thursday of this week to speak his piece; after that, anyone found in possession...
...Died. Reinhard Heydrich, 38, "the hangman" of the Gestapo; of wounds from bomb fragments; in Prague...