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Originally posted by SSGrenadier:
Now ive heard Reinhard Heydrich has many nicknames, such as the "Butcher of Prague". But from what i hear you guys say(and i understand that you have great sources to prove this) that Heydrich was great to the Czechs in Prague, so how exactly and why did he get the name of "The Butcher"?
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...Few know that the entire Czech nation was the subject of a Holocaust plan. Reinhard Heydrich, who planned the "final solution" for the Jewish people, also prepared similar plans for all Czech, except a few with the blue eyes and blond hair traits of the "master race." Hitler, himself, called Czechs subhumans.
Heydrich with his wife and child
SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich was by now a supremely arrogant young man who liked to travel between his country home and headquarters in Prague in an open top green Mercedes without an armed escort as a show of confidence in his intimidation of the resistance and successful pacification of the population.
In 1942 Heydrich was assassinated in Prague, and so the Czechs saved their nation, but thousands of innocent Czech lives had been lost in executions.
Nazi Germany destroyed an innocent Czech village - Lidice - to avenge the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.
On June 9, just five days after Heydrich's death, ten truckloads of the Security Police came and quickly surrounded the village. No one was allowed to leave the village; a 12 year old boy and a peasant woman were shot as they tried to escape. All the men and boys over 16 years old, 172 in all, were rounded up and locked in a barn. They were then shot the next day in groups of ten, which lasted from dawn until 4 in the afternoon. 19 men who were working in the mines during the shooting were also rounded up and sent to Prague where they were killed.
The women as a whole fared better than the men, but still faced cruel situations. Seven of the women were taken to Prague where they were shot. The rest, numbering 195, were sent to the Ravensbrueck concentration camp in Germany. There 49 of the women died; 7 by gassing, and the rest from cruel treatment.
The children, 90 in all, were taken to a concentration camp at Gneisenau. The children were then selected according to the "racial experts" and distributed to German people with new German names to be raised as their own. The village itself was completely destroyed. The village was burned, the remains dynamited, and then bulldozed so that no structure was left standing. Lidice became a symbol of Nazi barbarism.
When the war ended, millions of Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Communists, and others targeted by the Nazis, had died in the Holocaust. The Jewish dead numbered more than 6 million: about 4 million in killing centers like Auschwitz, 1.4 million in shooting operations, and more than 600,000 in ghettos.
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