Operation Foxley

As Winston Churchill became the British Prime Minister in 1940, he had keen interest in various military tactics and authorised in 1941 to hatch plots for assassinations of Nazi leaders.

[2] In one of the most successful high-ranking assassinations, name Operation Anthropoid, Czech soldiers, Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš ambushed Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Reich Security Main Office (including the Gestapo, Kripo, and SD) on 27 May 1942.

In June 1944, an anonymous informer tipped the SOE office in Algiers, North Africa, there would be an opportunity to kill Hitler as he was to visit a chateau in Perpignan, southern France.

An "inside man" was recruited, the uncle of a prisoner of war named Dieser, who was a shopkeeper living in nearby (20 km) Salzburg, identified as "Heidentaler", who was vehemently anti-Nazi.

[8] Heidentaler would shelter the agents and transport them to Berchtesgaden disguised as German mountain troops (Gebirgsjäger), from where they would make the approach to the vantage point for the attack.

[10] The sniper practised by firing at moving dummy targets with an accurized Kar 98k with a Mauser telescopic sight, the standard rifle of the Wehrmacht, under conditions that simulated the planned attack.