Jaroslav Stribny

Jaroslav Stribny (d. 1938) was a citizen of Prague, Czechoslovakia. In September, 1938, Stribny followed Konrad Henlein, leader of the Sudeten Germans to Berlin, where he shot Henlein to death. Stribny's act came at the end of the Munich Conference, just as British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French Premier Edouard Daladier were preparing to ascede to German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's demands for the secession of the Sudetenland. Neither Chamberlain nor Daladier could believe Hitler had not engineered the assassination. Hitler, who'd wanted war all along, was happy to let them believe he was repsonsible. Thus, much as Gavrilo Princip had inadvertantly started the First World War, Jaroslav Stribny started the second.

Stribny was tried and executed by the German government for his crime.