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Lidice (lĭ`dyĭtsĕ), village, NW Czech Republic, in Bohemia. In reprisal for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich Heydrich, Reinhard (rīn`härt hī`drĭkh), 1904–42, German police official under the Nazi regime. ..... Click the link for more information. , the Germans "liquidated" (1942) Lidice by killing all the men, deporting all women and children, and razing the village to the ground. After World War II a new village was built near the site of old Lidice, which is now a national park and memorial. Lidice a mining village in the Czech Republic: destroyed by the Germans in 1942 in reprisal for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich; rebuilt as a national memorial Lidice Czech town obliterated by Nazis (June 10, 1942). [Eur. Hist.: Van Doren, 489] See : Destruction How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Maria G Guzman, * Mayling Alvarez, * Rosmari Rodriguez-Roche, * Lidice Bernardo, * Tibaire Montes, ([dagger]) Susana Vazquez, * Luis Morier, * Angel Alvarez, * Ernest A. Certainly the obscene manner of death, evocative of an auto-da-fe, attracts the compassionate and the curious--who do not, though, seem to have been comparably moved by such "martyred villages" as Oradour-sur-Glane or Lidice. Visit artist Barton Lidice Benes's apartment in New York City's West Village and you may feel you're in a dream. |
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