Massacre at Lidice
10th June 1942: The shooting of 192 men and boys is just the opening phase in a programme of murderous savagery by the Nazis in Czechoslovakia
On 9th June 1942 the Nazis buried Reinhard Heydrich who had died from wounds inflicted by an assassination team of Czech and Slovak agents, who had parachuted into Czechoslovakia after training in Britain1. On 10th June 1942, mistakenly believing that the Czech village of Lidice was in some way conn…
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