The Town of LIDICE
... Berlin had commanded the following : 1.shoot all adult men to death, 2. transport all women to a concentration camp, 3. gather the children suitable for Germanization and place them in SS families in the Reich and bring the rest up in other ways, 4. burn down and level the village entirely.
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Lidice is a village in the Czech Republic just north-west of Prague which was completely destroyed by the Germans during World War II. All 192 adult men from the village were murdered by the Germans, and the rest of the population deported.
Lidice massacre
In 1942, Reinhard Heydrich was the Reichsprotektor of the Nazi German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. This area of the former Czechoslovakia had been ruthlessly and illegally occupied by Germany since 1939. On the morning of Wednesday May 27, 1942, he was being driven from his country villa to his office at the Hradcany Castle in Prague. When he reached the Holešovice area of Prague, his car was attacked by two Czechoslovak resistance fighters, Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš. These men, who had been trained in Britain, had parachuted into Czechoslovakia in December, 1941, as part of Operation Anthropoid. After Gabcik's sten gun failed, Kubis threw a bomb at the Heydrich's car. Heydrich was fatally injured ... ... The mourning speeches over Heydrich's coffin were not over in Berlin when on June 9, 1942 the decision was made to "make up for his death" by a bloody end to Lidice.
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Lidice is a village in the Czech Republic just north-west of Prague which was completely destroyed by the Germans during World War II. All 192 adult men from the village were murdered by the Germans, and the rest of the population deported.
Lidice massacre
In 1942, Reinhard Heydrich was the Reichsprotektor of the Nazi German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. This area of the former Czechoslovakia had been ruthlessly and illegally occupied by Germany since 1939. On the morning of Wednesday May 27, 1942, he was being driven from his country villa to his office at the Hradcany Castle in Prague. When he reached the Holešovice area of Prague, his car was attacked by two Czechoslovak resistance fighters, Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš. These men, who had been trained in Britain, had parachuted into Czechoslovakia in December, 1941, as part of Operation Anthropoid. After Gabcik's sten gun failed, Kubis threw a bomb at the Heydrich's car. Heydrich was fatally injured ... ... The mourning speeches over Heydrich's coffin were not over in Berlin when on June 9, 1942 the decision was made to "make up for his death" by a bloody end to Lidice.
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posted by Mart'a at 9:06 AM
2 Comments:
Funny how the winners always write history and there is such a fine line between a "freedom fighter" and "terrorist".
the situation when it happens should also be taken into account ... but otherwise of course there is some truth in your words.
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