Crimes & persecution
Lidice massacre
10 June 1942 · Lidice, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
In reprisal for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, German police units surrounded the village of Lidice near Kladno on 10 June 1942. All 173 men were shot on the spot, the women were sent to Ravensbrück and most of the children were murdered at Chełmno; the village was razed. Lidice became an international symbol of Nazi terror.
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