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The Daring Mission to Assassinate Nazi Leader Reinhard Heydrich
Operation Anthropoid has passed down into legend
If you go to Prague, a short walk down from the Vltava River, past the Dancing House, you will find a nondescript looking church. If it weren’t for the plaques on its walls, you wouldn’t know its significance. Even now remaining pot-marked with bullet holes, this building was the site of a great drama that took place during World War II.
Inside the building, a group of Czechoslovak paratroopers was holding out against the Nazi German army. None of them would make it out alive at the end, but their story has passed into legend. Numerous films have been made about their deeds and their sacrifice.
Among that small group of paratroopers were a duo that carried out the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia, and one of Adolf Hitler’s top Nazi lieutenants. Heydrich, one of Nazi Germany’s most feared men, and one of the chief planners of the Holocaust, was the highest-ranking Nazi assassinated during the War.
