Lidice, Czech Republic

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Lidice (German: Liditz) was a village in the Czech Republic just north-west of Prague. It was part of the Nazi created Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, was, as per orders directly from Heinrich Himmler, completely destroyed by German forces in reprisal for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in the late spring of 1942. On June 10, 1942, all 192 men over 16 years of age from the village were murdered on the spot by the Germans in a much publicised atrocity. The rest of the population were sent to Nazi concentration camps where many women and nearly all the children were killed. This is the memorial to all the killed Children

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Size: 4287px × 2848px
Location: Lidice, Czech Republic
Photo credit: © Paul Briden / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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