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HollowHorn wrote:Hard to put an image on that amount of folk, multiplications of Parkhead or Ibrox? How do you put it into manageable numbers?
The annihilation of the Czech town of Lidice is one of the most notorious instances of the Nazi practice of reprisal.
On May 27, 1942, Reinhard Heydrich, head of the RSHA, the Reichsprotektor of Czechoslovakia, the man who had convened the Wannsee Conference only four months previously, was severely wounded in a grenade attack on his car near Prague by two Czech parachutists sent from London by the Czech government-in-exile. The two Czechs managed to leave the scene and took refuge in the Karl Borromaeus Church in Prague.
On June 4, Heydrich died of his wounds. The Nazis swore revenge: they ordered the execution of ten thousand Czechs and threatened the expulsion of millions. The Karl Borromaeus Church, where the assassins and more than one hundred members of the Czech resistance were hiding, was besieged. Everyone in the church was killed by the SS.
In Lezaky, a village east of Prague, where the assassins' radio transmitter was discovered, every adult was killed. The children were forcibly removed to Germany for "reeducation," a process that only two of them survived.
At dawn on June 10, all the residents of Lidice, a village ten miles outside Prague, were taken from their homes. They were shot in batches of ten at a time behind a barn. By late afternoon, 192 men and boys and 71 women had been murdered. The other women were sent to concentration camps. The children were dispersed, some to concentration camps, although a few who were considered sufficiently Aryan were sent to Germany. The SS then razed the town and tried to eradicate its memory. The name of Lidice was expunged from all official records.
The Czechs were stunned by the Nazis' brutality. They also came to view resistance activities with considerably less enthusiasm. The assassination was so unpopular that the Czech government-in-exile denied all responsibility for it, even after the war.
Apparently as a "tribute" to Heydrich's memory, his SS colleagues gave the code name Operation Reinhard to the Final Solution to the Jewish Problem carried out by the General-Government in Poland in the death camps of Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka.
The 82 Children from Lidice, who were Killed in Chelmno :
BREJCHA
Josef
1937
BULINA
Josef
1930
BULINOVA
Anna
1928
BULINOVA
Jaroslava
1931
CERMAK
Jiri
1930
CERMAKOVA
Miloslava
1934
CRMAKOVA
Bozena
1932
FRUHAUF
Jiri
1938
HEJMA
Karel
1934
HEJMA
Frantiasek
1928
HERMANOVA
Jaroslava
1939
HOCKOVA
Marie
1932
HONZIKOVA
Vara
1929
HOCKOVA
Marie
1932
HONZIKOVA
Bozena
1929
HRONIK
Zdenek
1934
HRONIKOVA
Bozena
1929
HRONIKOVA
Marta
1941
HRONIKOVA
Zdenka
1930
JADLICKA
Vaclav
1937
KACL
Karel
1934
KAFKOVA
Vara
1936
KAIMLOVA
Anna
1929
KOBERA
Jaroslav
1932
KOBERA
Vaclav
1936
KOBEROVA
Milada
1931
KOBEROVA
Zdenka
1934
KOVAROVSKA
Hana
1937
KOVAROVSKA
Ludmila
1937
KOZEL
Antonin
1935
KRASOVA
Venceslava
1935
KUBELA
Rudolf
1938
KULHAVY
Frantisek
1935
KULHAVY
Jaroslav
1929
LISKA
Miloslav
1936
MIKOVA
Milada
1936
MORAVCOVA
Jitka
1940
MORAVEC
Vaclav
1931
MULAK
Karel
1930
MULAKOVA
Marie
1927
MULLER
Zdenek
1937
NERAD
Antonin
1928
NOVA
Alena
1938
NOVOTNA
Milada
1927
PEK
Antonin
1934
PELICHOVSKA
Emilie
1927
PELICHOVSKY
Vaclav
1932
PESEK
Josef
1934
PESKOVA
Anna
1936
PESKOVA
Jirina
1935
PETRAK
Miloslav
1931
PETRAK
Zdenek
1933
PETRAKOVA
Jirina
1927
PETRIK
Zdenek
1941
PITINOVA
Marie
1931
PODZEMAKY
Stepan
1938
PRUCHOVA
Vera
1926
PRIHODOVA
Josef
1930
PRIHODOVA
Anna
1926
PRIHODOVA
Jaroslava
1940
PUCHMELTROVA
Venceslava
1928
RADOSTA
Miloslav
1936
RAMES
Vaclav
1933
RAMESOVA
Jaroslava
1940
ROHLOVA
Bozena
1934
RUZENECKA
Jirina
1929
SEJE
Jiri
1936
SOUCKOVA
Jirina
1930
SOUCKOVA
Marie
1928
SOUCKOVA
Miloslav
1929
STRAKOVA
Jarmila
1939
STRAKOVA
Ludmila
1940
SUCHY
Josef
1941
SYSLOVA
Wiroslava
1928
SROUBEK
Josef
1934
SROUBKOVA
Marie
1927
STORKOVA
Jaroslava
1932
URBAN
Antonin
1930
URBANOVA
Vera
1937
VANDRDLE
Josef
1928
VESELA
Dagmar
1936
VLCEK
Karel
1935
ZELENKA
Jaromir
1940
ZID
Ivan
1934
Pgcc93 wrote:I was using Local Live to check out some former WW2 sites around Glasgow and found these bomb craters on the Kilpatrick Hills high above Alexandria near Bonhill.
Made me wonder if there are any others still visible?
This was the site of a Decoy City that was used to lure the German bombers away from strategic areas of Glasgow and the Clydeside. I wouldn't have fancied being in the command bunker when those near misses landed!
Pripyat wrote:Alycidon, roughly
55 degrees 58 mins N
4 degrees 31 mins W
Can't find the positional data on Live Local Sad
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