Lidice

Czech Republic / Stredocesky / Bustehrad /
 Second World War 1939-1945, village
Lidice (German: Liditz) is a village in the Czech Republic just northwest of Prague. It is built on the site of a previous village of the same name which, as part of the Nazi-created Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, was, on orders directly from Heinrich Himmler, completely destroyed by German forces in reprisal for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in the late spring of 1942. On June 10, 1942, all 192 men over 16 years of age from the village were murdered on the spot by the Germans in a much publicised atrocity. The rest of the population were sent to Nazi concentration camps where many women and nearly all the children were killed.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidice
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Coordinates:   50°8'37"N   14°11'23"E
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