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AUSLAND TONWOCHE 1943 Part 1 - DESTRUCTION OF LIDICE 10.6.1942 3 Films
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Ausland Tonwoche
Part 1 1943
German language
Czech subtitles
11:49 Min.
 

 

Destruction of
Lidice 10.6.1942
Silent
Without Subtitles
6:16 Min.
 
Until recently we only had 1 of the 3 film reels taken by the SS of the destruction of the city of Lidice. This collection is the 3 of them together.
 
History: Lidice was chosen as a target for reprisals in the wake of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, because its residents were suspected of harbouring local resistance partisans and were falsely associated with aiding team members of Operation Anthropoid. Altogether, about 340 people from Lidice died because of the German reprisal (192 men, 60 women and 88 children). The village of Lidice was set on fire and the remains of the buildings destroyed with explosives. After the war ended, only 153 women and 17 children returned. They were rehoused in a new village of Lidice that was built overlooking the original site, built using money raised by the Lidice Shall Live campaign based in north Staffordshire in the United Kingdom. The first part of the new village was completed in 1949.