A Czech village wiped our
Title
A Czech village wiped our
Description
Barbarous vengeance for Heydrich. Account of execution of men in Czech village of Lidice after assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.
Date
1942-06-11
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One newspaper cutting mounted on a scrapbook page
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Identifier
SValentineJRM1251404v10007
Transcription
[missing letters]ES THURSDAY JUNE 11 1942
A CZECH VILLAGE WIPED OUT
BARBAROUS VENGEANCE FOR HEYDRICH
The Prague wireless announced last night that all the men of the village of Lidice, near Kladno, the Czech coal-mining centre, have been shot on suspicion of harbouring the men who shot Heydrich.
The women of the village have been deported to a concentration camp, and the children have been sent to “educational centres.”
All the buildings in Lidice, which had a population of about 12,000, have been razed to the ground, and the name of the village has been erased from official records.
The announcement stated that in addition to “assisting those who had perpetrated the shooting of Heydrich the population had also committed other hostile acts, such as keeping an illegal dump of ammunition and arms, and maintaining an illegal wireless transmitter and an extraordinarily large quantity of goods which are controlled.” All this, it continued, “points to the fact that the inhabitants of the village were active in the service of the enemy.” Quantities of propaganda hostile to Germany were also said to have been found in the village.
Thirty-one more Czechs were executed yesterday, 25 in Prague and six in Brno. The number of executions after the death of Heydrich is thus increased to 306. – [italics] Reuter [/italics].
A CZECH VILLAGE WIPED OUT
BARBAROUS VENGEANCE FOR HEYDRICH
The Prague wireless announced last night that all the men of the village of Lidice, near Kladno, the Czech coal-mining centre, have been shot on suspicion of harbouring the men who shot Heydrich.
The women of the village have been deported to a concentration camp, and the children have been sent to “educational centres.”
All the buildings in Lidice, which had a population of about 12,000, have been razed to the ground, and the name of the village has been erased from official records.
The announcement stated that in addition to “assisting those who had perpetrated the shooting of Heydrich the population had also committed other hostile acts, such as keeping an illegal dump of ammunition and arms, and maintaining an illegal wireless transmitter and an extraordinarily large quantity of goods which are controlled.” All this, it continued, “points to the fact that the inhabitants of the village were active in the service of the enemy.” Quantities of propaganda hostile to Germany were also said to have been found in the village.
Thirty-one more Czechs were executed yesterday, 25 in Prague and six in Brno. The number of executions after the death of Heydrich is thus increased to 306. – [italics] Reuter [/italics].
Citation
“A Czech village wiped our,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed November 13, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/20867.
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