Lower Palace (Dolní zámek) in Panenské Břežany in Central Bohemia, Czech Republic. The palace was owned by Jewish sugar producer Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer and his wife Adele Bloch-Bauer known as a model for the famous portrait by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt. During the Nazi occupation the palace served as a residence to Reinhard Heydrich, who was the Deputy Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. On 27 May 1942 he started here his notorious trip to Prague where he was critically wounded by Czechoslovak soldiers as a result of Operation Anthropoid.

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