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Lidice Massacre: Nazi Reprisal After the Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
The Lidice Massacre was one of the most notorious Nazi war crimes of World War II, carried out in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. Orchestrated by Czech paratroopers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš in Operation Anthropoid, the attack dealt a significant blow to Nazi authority in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. But it also unleashed a wave of terror that would culminate in the Lidice Massacre, a crime that shocked the world and became a symbol of Nazi vengeance. On June 9, 1942, acting on direct orders from Adolf Hitler, Nazi SS forces surrounded the village of…
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