Lidice

Lidice is a village of old the Czechoslovakia (today in Tchéquie) which was completely destroyed by the Nazis during the Second world war. Approximately 340 men, women and children were killed.

After the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by two Czech agents formed in England, the Nazis are avenged by shaving the village for Lidice and by eliminating the unit from its inhabitants.

To justify the massacre, the inhabitants are shown to have supported the authors of the attack. Actually, the bonds of this agglomeration with any form of resistance are summarized with two officers flee abroad who of it are originating and a seized letter whose contents, rather obscure, let think that the author decided to join resistance. However, the Nazis could never know if there had been a bond between the author of the letter and the assassins of Reinhard Heydrich.

The June 10th 1942, all the men of more than 16 years and part of the women are shot. The other women are off-set with Ravensbrück.

The children are selected:

- A hundred whose physical type corresponds to the criteria of the “Aryan race” according to the theories Nazis are placed in German families to be rehabilitated, through the Lebensborn .

- The others leave for one the death camps the least known, that of Chelmno, and die in the gas chambers.

The day following the massacre, any trace of the village is erased, and its name is striped chart.

Rebuilt under the Communist regime, the village is then used by this one like symbol.

See too

External bonds

  • the tragedy of the village of Lidice

  • The murder off 82 children in Chelmo

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