One Czech and one Slovak solider were symbolically selected to carry out the sole assassination of a top Nazi in Europe during WWII, that of the acting “protector” of Bohemia and Moravia, Reinhardt Heydrich. The results were fatal to the daring assassins as well as for many other Czechs in the retributions that followed, as events to mark and examine the upcoming 70^th anniversary of the still controversial attack explain.