1942 Tragedy of Lidice

75 years ago, on June 10, 1942, the German police destroyed the Czech village of Lidice, 20 kilometers west of Prague. The reason for the massacre was the suspicion that participants in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the deputy protector of Bohemia and Moravia and the head of the Imperial Security Main Directorate, were hiding in Lidice. Heydrich was mortally wounded in Prague on May 27 during an assassination attempt by a Czech reconnaissance and sabotage group deployed from London.

All 172 men who lived in Lidice were shot, and 198 women and 85 children were sent to concentration camps.