Operation Anthropoid: The Assassination of Hitler's Hangman, Reinhard Heydrich

Czechoslovakia, a vital European economy, was dismantled by Nazi Germany. The Sudetenland was annexed, and the rest of the nation became the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Hitler replaced Reichsprotektor Konstantin von Neurath with Reinhard Heydrich in September 1941 due to unmet production quotas. Known as the "Butcher of Prague," Heydrich imposed martial law, leading to widespread arrests and executions.

In response, the Czechoslovak government-in-exile, led by Edvard Beneš, devised ...