Operation Kutschera

Operation Kutschera was the code name for the Polish resistance's assassination of Austrian Nazi Franz Kutschera, SS and Reich's Police Chief in German-occupied Warsaw, outside his office on his way to work.

After being tried in absentia by the Polish Secret State, Kutschera was shot dead on 1 February 1944 by the Kedyw special operations unit of the underground Home Army. It was a part of the larger Operation Heads - the code name of a series of post-trial assassination of Nazi officials by the Polish Resistance.

300 randomly-chosen Polish civilians were murdered in reprisal.

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