What the records say
- When
- 10 Jun 1942
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 340
- Coordinates
- 50.14° N, 14.20° E
- Description
- complete destruction of village and massacre of its population as a Nazi reprisal
Lidice massacre
1942 Nazi destruction of Czech village
The Lidice massacre was the complete destruction of the village of Lidice in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, which is now a part of the Czech Republic, in June 1942 on orders from Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and acting Reichsprotektor Kurt Daluege, successor to Reinhard Heydrich.
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