The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich & the Destruction of Lidice

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Photos (top to bottom): photo1: Memorial to the children of Lidice; photo2: Reinhard Heydrich, one of the most brutal mass murderers in Nazi Germany; photo3: Heydrich's car, after the assassination attempt on May 27th, 1942; photos 4-11: images of Lidice; photo12-16: images of the razing of the village, and the mass murder of many of its residents; photo 17: Lidice, before and after the Nazi destruction.

I have stumbled upon a rich, if troubling history associated with the grounds of the Endicott Campus here at the Hotel Jeneralka. There are many stories. The offices of the Gestapo were located here, as was the office of then governor Reinhard Heydrich.

Heydrich was a bad man. He was head of the Gestapo, and chaired the meetings at Wannsee that led to the formulation of the Final Solution. Heydrich was assassinated by British trained Czech partisans in Prague on May of 1942. As a consequence, Hitler ordered that the village of Lidice be utterly destroyed.

Note the following video programs: Lidice1 Lidice2 Lidice3 Lidice4

Note also Lidice5, the last in a 5-part series on the life of Heydrich, and Lidice6, a 9-part program on the destruction of Lidice.