Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, principal architect of the Holocaust. [View all]

[AnotherMother4Peace]

I watched a 1943 movie on TCM this past Monday entitled "Hangmen Also Die" about the assassination of one of Hitler's right hand men, Reinhard Heydrich. Hitler ordered massive retaliation for his death. AND then Charlie Kirk was killed with chillingly similar talk of retaliation. The following info is from Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Reinhard_Heydrich

Heydrich's death led to a wave of reprisals by SS troops, including the destruction of villages and mass killings of civilians, including the Lidice massacre.

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According to one estimate, 5,000 people were murdered in the reprisals.[55] More than 13,000 people were arrested, including Kubiš's girlfriend Anna Malinová, who died in the Mauthausen concentration camp. Adolf Opálka's aunt, Marie Opálková, was executed in the Mauthausen camp on 24 October 1942; his father Viktor Jarolím was also killed.[56][57]

Nazi intelligence falsely linked Heydrich's assassins to the village of Lidice. A Gestapo report suggested Lidice was the hiding place of the assassins, since several Czech army officers exiled in England were known to have come from there.[58] On 9 June 1942, the Germans committed the Lidice massacre; 199 men were killed, 195 women were deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp and 95 children taken prisoner. Of the children, 81 were later killed in gas vans at the Chełmno extermination camp, while eight were adopted by German families. The Czech village of Ležáky was also destroyed because a radio transmitter belonging to the Silver A team was found there. The men and women of Ležáky were murdered, both villages were burned and the ruins of Lidice were levelled.[59][60]