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Operation Anthropoid was the codename for a paratroop drop sent from Great Britain to the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia during World War II. It consisted of soldiers of the Czechoslovak Army in Exile, Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš. It was a diversionary operation that took place between December 1941 and June 1942. Its main objective was to liquidate the acting Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich. The attack took place on 27 May 1942 and was successful; Heydrich died of its effects on 4 June 1942. Both of its perpetrators paid for their actions with their lives when they and other paratroopers succumbed in a battle with outnumbered Nazi soldiers in the Church of Sts. Cyril and Methodius on 18 June 1942.
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  • jirihracek In response to the assassination of Heydrich, the German Nazis unleashed even greater terror than before on the territory of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Already on 28 May, the Nazis began executions for approving the assassination, and on 29 May alone 252 people were convicted and executed. It is estimated that during the so-called Heydrichiad the German Nazis murdered over 2,000 people. For example, on 10 June 1942 they burned the village of Lidice and on 24 June 1942 the village of Ležáky. At the same time, the successful assassination of a high official of the Third Reich aroused a wave of positive reactions in the world. On its basis, the British revoked the Munich Agreement and on 5 August 1942 it was declared null and void from the outset. At the same time, the restoration of Czechoslovakia to its "pre-Munich" borders was promised. On 26 January 1943 and 3 February 1944, the German Nazis murdered a total of 294 of the closest collaborators of the Czech resistance paratroopers in the Mauthausen concentration camp. The successful assassination of Reinhard Heydrich also contributed to the recognition of the post-war Czechoslovak Republic among the victorious countries.

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