Operation Anthropoid was the code name for the assassination during World War II of Schutzstaffel (SS)-"Obergruppenführer" and "General der Polizei" Reinhard Heydrich, head of the "Reichssicherheitshauptamt" (Reich Main Security Office, RSHA), the combined security services of Nazi Germany, and acting "Reichsprotektor" of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.