The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Architect of the Holocaust: Operation Anthropoid

Please join us for a presentation by Anita Moravec Gard, the granddaughter of Czechoslovak military intelligence officer František Moravec. Between 1940 and 1945, General Moravec served as the chief of the intelligence service of the Czechoslovak Government-in-Exile in wartime Great Britain. Moravec headed the planning and preparation of the assassination of Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, code-named Operation Anthropoid. After the defeat of Germany in 1945, Moravec returned to Czechoslovakia. He had to escape again, secretly, in 1948, after the communist takeover. He eventually settled in Washington, D.C., where he worked until his death in 1966 as an intelligence advisor in the Department of Defense.

The discussion will be moderated by Igor Lukes, Professor of International Relations and History in the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University.