Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius is a famous (18th century) church in the center of Prague, where the Czech assassins of top-Nazi, Reinhard Heydrich, hid after the Operation Anthropoid and where they, after a fierce gun battle, committed suicide to avoid capture. Contemporary there is a museum dedicated to these national heroes. Prague (Czech: Praha, see also other names) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. ... Reinhard Heydrich as SS-Gruppenführer Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (March 7, 1904 – June 4, 1942) was an SS-Obergruppenführer, chief of the Reich Main Security Office, and Reich governor of Bohemia and Moravia. ... Reinhard Heydrich During World War II, the Czech-British Operation Anthropoid was the assassination of top Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich, the chief of Reich Main Security Office, the Protector of Bohemia and Moravia and the chief planner of the Final Solution, the Nazi term for the genocide of the Jews. ...

Permanent exhibition

The scene of the fight of the Czechoslovak parachutists who performed a military assignment imposed on them by the London exile government during the Second World War. Depiction of post-Heydrich terror.

Address

Resslova 9, New Town, Prague 2