Undercover agents dropped by parachute into occupied central Europe. The daylight assassination of one of the most-important Nazi leaders. Brutal reprisals and the largest manhunt in the Second World War. A betrayal leading to a final desperate shoot-out in a church.
The plot to kill Reinhard Heydrich, the merciless SS Obergruppenführer in charge of Bohemia and Moravia (today’s Czech Republic), has all the ingredients of a thriller. Not surprisingly, over the years it has been the subject of several dramatic feature films – from the largely fictional wartime production Hangmen Also Die! to Operation Daybreak in 1975 and, more recently, Anthropoid and The Man with the Iron Heart.
What actually happened in Prague in the late spring of 1942?
