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Operation Anthropoid
During World War II, the Czechoslovak-British Operation Anthropoid was the code name for the assassination of the top Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich. He was the chief of the Reich Main Security Office, the acting "Protector of Bohemia and Moravia" and the chief planner of the Final Solution, the Nazi term for the genocide of the Jews and many other groups.
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