in the neighboring cities of  Kladno  and  Slaný . Heydrich's assassination Main article:  Operation Anthropoid In 1942,  Reinhard Heydrich  was the deputy  Reichsprotektor  of the  Nazi  German  Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia . This area of the former Czechoslovakia had been occupied by Germany since 1939. Heydrich's car at the scene