For real?
Is it true that this town was really wiped out or is it just propaganda of the time?
sharehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidice_massacre
shareThe town of Lezaky was also raised and all of the women were murdered. Neither town had anything to do with Heydrich's well deserved end. What REALLY happened to the men & esp the women of those two towns would make your blood run cold. They even killed every dog that they could find. Read the Wikipedia pages.
On a happier note his brother was so disgusted by what he had done that he used a printing press to print passports for Jews to leave Nazi Germany. All to atone for a brother who was so evil Hitler called him The Man With The Iron Heart!
I didn't know any of that! Thank you!
shareMy pleasure, maxman-5! I've been a longtime lurker & you wouldn't know it by my name - which I wanted to be WAMPAS Baby Star- but I'm a girl who's also a WWII buff. Several years ago I saw on Antiques Road Show a poster from the 40's about the massacre. I had no idea that there was a film about the killing of that monster - I refuse to use the word murder - that was made so soon after the actual events. You should look up his brother on Wikipedia. It's a very bittersweet story. I believe that he was being groomed to be Hitler's replacement. He certainly had the temperament for the job! He was rewarded with a hero's funeral at the Invalidenfriedhof but the exact spot of his tomb is unmarked so it would not become a shrine for "shudder" Neo-Nazis.
shareI read what Wikipedia had about his brother, thanks to you. I read 'The Killing of Reinhard Heydrich: The SS 'Butcher of Prague' by Callum Macdonald some time back. There is also a movie you may have seen called 'Hangmen Also Die'. I think there's another I don't remember the name of. And out in theaters now is 'Anthropoid'. If I don't catch it in the theater I'll see it on DVD.
share"Operation Daybreak" is another film related to this true story.
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