Barton Lidice Beneš was born in 1942.

Lidice was razed for the assassination of Heydrich .

Yes

The were accused of killing Reinhard Heydrich, a German in charge of Bohemia and Moravia. Hitler wanted to teach them (citizens of Lidice) a lesson, so he planned to kill all of them. It turns out, it was a different Lidice that was guilty! That is the reason the people suffered. For nothing.

University of Kentucky Library:

Murder of Lidice, by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

1942

PS3525.I495 M8

Lidice .

Yes a Few .

Lidice is pronounced "lih-dyts-ay" with a slight emphasis on the 2nd syllable

Milada is "mih-lah-dah"

The cast of El - 2011 includes: Lidice Abreu

Barton Benes's birth name is Barton Lidice Benes.

Because they Kill'd Reinhard Heydrich the Reichsfhurer,2nd in charge after Hitler

Lidice.

The city of lidice

http://vidiot.typepad.com/telescreen/2004/06/the_murder_of_l.html

· Lidice - Check mining village liquidated by the Nazis in 1942

- Lodz

- Lublin

Eleanor Wheeler has written:

'Lidice' -- subject(s): Atrocities, History, World War, 1939-1945

None. And there is a large difference between the nations of Australia and Austria. However, you are probably thinking of the village of Lidice in the Czech Republic.

The cast of Lidice - 2011 includes: Jaroslav Achab Haidler as Soudce Markus Alexander Nieden Detlef Bothe as Haydrich Pavel Bousek Miroslav Brumla Jan Budar as Safebreaker Petiska Martin Donutil Vladislav Georgiev Jakub Hykes Jakub Kosina Krystof Mende Mariusz Osmelak as Kowalski Zdenek Pecha Bronislav Poul Michal Reichert Pavel Severa Patrik Stanek as Jan Kubis Jiri Stanek as Josef Gabcik Pavel Stoll Jindrich Svetnica as Mistr Jan Vasi Boris Wilke Michal Zelenka Jakub Zindulka as Geschke

Patrik Stanek has: Played Thief in "Mandragora" in 1997. Played Jansen (escaped con) in "Escape Velocity" in 1999. Played Andrei in "Chuck" in 2007. Played Jan Kubis in "Lidice" in 2011. Played Bartender in "Ideal World" in 2011.

how did Hitler torture people ?

HE would put the Jews in "workcamps"there they would work...till they were shot or died from hunger or illness not only Jews would go to workcamps there was a attack in the small town of Lidice and all the nonjewish people were taken to work camps othere then the blonde and light colord eye children.he would also put the Jews in gas chambers and let them die a slow and painful death.

In addition to that,many people were experimented on. Twins, triplets, ect were especially experimented on.

Someone Named Eva is about a girl named Milada that lives in Czechoslovakia, Europe when they are taken for interrogation by the Nazis which work for Adolf Hitler and the Nazis arrest everyone in here town and they choose her to be a German girl and a couple more girls. It's a very good book and you should take time to read it's a great read.

Nicholas G. Balint has written:

'Meet your allies in war and peace' -- subject(s): United nations (1942- )

'The god-child of the U.S.A' -- subject(s): World War, 1939-1945

'Lidice lives forever' -- subject(s): Atrocities, History, World War, 1939-1945

You are on the right track, (Boston and Maine!) Mme Nordica had an estate in what is now called Farmington, Maine (obviouskly a rural, agrarian area) there is a Nordica museum on the site. Towns do change names over the years- for example there is a Lidice (Pronounced Lid-Each-Ay) not Lidiss) in Illinois renamed after the village massacred by the SS in World War II. Towns do change names, so beware. Get a museum directory and look it up. As far as I know they are still in business. Nordica was the first Yankee Diva- American Girl to hit big-time opera, though many think that Geraldine Farrar was the first native talent in that line, Nordica came earlier, but WA never Lead singer at the Met. (metropolitan opera)

Operation Daybreak - 1975 - with Anthony Andrews, Martin Shaw and Timothy Bottoms. It was about Czech SOE trained operatives assassinating Reynard Heydrich in Prague in 1942. He was Deputy Protector of Bohemia and Moravia and a Senior SS officer second only to Himmler who originally headed up the Gestapo during the early Nazi years. In real life the two SOE agents took refuge in a Church crypt after the attempt and as the Germans surrounded it and opened fire they committed suicide rather than be captured. From memory in the film they do this as waters rise. The Germans levelled Lidice and Lezaky in revenge killing all males over 16 and thousands were arrested, deported and killed in the aftermath.

Towards the end of 1943, the Allies invaded southern Italy. Mussolini was removed from power by the Italian government (Italy still had a king at the time- but he had mostly sat back and let Mussolini run things) and arrested. However, Germany's powerful military occupied most of northern Italy, and German commandos were able to rescue Mussolini from captivity. He was brought to the German occupied northern Italy and made the leader of the new "Italian Social Republic"- but the Germans were really in charge.

Italians who opposed Mussolini and his German friends then started a guerrilla war against them. Some Germans came to believe that people from the town of Marzabotto had been assisting these guerrillas. The Germans were notorious for punishing huge amounts of people for similar reasons- the entire Czech town of Lidice was wiped out after Reinhard Heydrich was assassinated in 1942., and further thousands more Czech people were arrested or killed.

Marzabotto would suffer a similar fate. The Waffen-SS slaughtered the people there. It's unclear exactly how many people were murdered, but it's probably somewhere around 800, and maybe half of that was women, children, or elderly.

After the war, the German officers who had overseen the massacre were arrested, tried, and imprisoned for their crimes.

Jan Budar has: Played Schmidt in "Hitler: The Rise of Evil" in 2003. Played Bohous in "Mistri" in 2004. Performed in "Svatyne" in 2005. Played Jindrich Hejzlar in "Toyen" in 2005. Played Husband, man in white in "Vina anticorro" in 2006. Played Filip in "Pravidla lzi" in 2006. Performed in "Marta a Berta 26" in 2006. Performed in "Trapasy" in 2007. Performed in "Bez dechu" in 2008. Played Hruskovic in "Muzika" in 2008. Played David in "Dark Spirits" in 2008. Played Policeman in "Anatomie gagu" in 2008. Played Colleague in "Protektor" in 2009. Played Honza in "Ljubavni zivot domobrana" in 2009. Played Ota in "Operace Dunaj" in 2009. Performed in "Holka Ferrari Dino" in 2009. Played Rdek in "La mujer sin piano" in 2009. Played himself in "Show Jana Krause" in 2010. Played Himself - Host in "E.ON Energy Globe Award CR 2010" in 2010. Played Safebreaker Petiska in "Lidice" in 2011. Played Himself - Host in "E.ON Energy Globe Award CR 2011" in 2011. Played Jan Budar in "Polski film" in 2012. Played Commander Rybarik in "The Confidant" in 2012. Performed in "Martin a Venuse" in 2012. Performed in "Rozkos" in 2013. Played Guard in "Vystava" in 2013.

More than 13,000 were arrested. The destruction of the village of Lidice was probably the most notorious thing the Nazis did in retaliation. All 199 men were executed, 95 children were taken and 195 women were arrested. The entire village was destroyed.

Heydrich had been the head of the Gestapo but was promoted to the head of the "Reich Main Security Office", and was the appointed ruler of the Czech Republic. His brutality earned him the nickname "the Butcher of Prague". He was assassinated by Czech rebels at the end of May 1942, although he didn't actually die until the beginning of June.

The Nazis, first and foremost, wanted to capture, torture, torture some more, and then execute the assassins. At first, they were unable to find them, so they arrested anyone and everyone who was around. Thousands of people were arrested, many of whom wound up in concentration camps and were killed.

Additionally, the initial findings of the Nazi investigation erroneously linked the assassins to two nearby towns. The Nazis destroyed those towns, and slaughtered the people. Those who weren't killed immediately, were sent to concentration camps to die.

Eventually the Nazis were able to arrest and torture enough people that they discovered where the assassins where hiding- in a church in Prague. The Nazis surrounded the church, and launched a military-style attack on it; all of the conspirators died, either by wounds or suicide. Also, the bishop at that church (who was not involved in the assassination) surrendered himself to the Nazis in the hopes that they would not attack his parishioners- the bishop and his church staff were arrested, tortured, and killed.

More than 13,000 were arrested. The destruction of the village of Lidice was probably the most notorious thing the Nazis did in retaliation. All 199 men were executed, 95 children were taken and 195 women were arrested. The entire village was destroyed.

Heydrich had been the head of the Gestapo but was promoted to the head of the "Reich Main Security Office", and was the appointed ruler of the Czech Republic. His brutality earned him the nickname "the Butcher of Prague". He was assassinated by Czech rebels at the end of May 1942, although he didn't actually die until the beginning of June.

The Nazis, first and foremost, wanted to capture, torture, torture some more, and then execute the assassins. At first, they were unable to find them, so they arrested anyone and everyone who was around. Thousands of people were arrested, many of whom wound up in concentration camps and were killed.

Additionally, the initial findings of the Nazi investigation erroneously linked the assassins to two nearby towns. The Nazis destroyed those towns, and slaughtered the people. Those who weren't killed immediately, were sent to concentration camps to die.

Eventually the Nazis were able to arrest and torture enough people that they discovered where the assassins where hiding- in a church in Prague. The Nazis surrounded the church, and launched a military-style attack on it; all of the conspirators died, either by wounds or suicide. Also, the bishop at that church (who was not involved in the assassination) surrendered himself to the Nazis in the hopes that they would not attack his parishioners- the bishop and his church staff were arrested, tortured, and killed.

Mobility: although WW1 was static, at least it was on the Western Front, the effects of warfare were visited on civillians far more than in previous conflicts. Paris was shelled & London bombed by Zeppelins for example. Therefore the speed at which land forces moved coupled with the massive advances in aerial technology transformed the art of war. The great majority of the casualties in WW1 were military, that cannot be said of the casualties in WW2 and indeed since. Atrocities against civillians, the Eastern front as a whole, Lidice & Oradour sur Glane in particular are stains on the coduct of military action in WW2, and some might argue the bombing of the German cities was beyond the strategic remit of the Allies. Therefore it's the tank & the strategic bomber that make the difference, both of which advance beyond recognition in WW2, there is no comparison between the PzKw II in 1939 to say the Panther in 1944 on land or the Wellesley to the Superfortress or Lancaster in similar times in the air. By comparison the Luftwaffe didn't ever have a strategic bomber fleet, but their armour compared well in military terms against all the Allied armour, best rivalled by the Russian T34. The various theatres in WW2 throw up different, diverse facets of warfare, it is far more fluid than WW1, more fast moving & less predictable. That doesn't mean WW1 wasn't a struggle, manifestly it was, but it affected far fewer people way from the battlefield militarily than WW2.

Detlef Bothe has: Played Volker Zahn in "Tatort" in 1969. Played Hubert in "Tatort" in 1969. Played Korneck in "Polizeiruf 110" in 1971. Played Joachim Rieder in "SOKO 5113" in 1978. Played Georg Berthold in "SOKO 5113" in 1978. Played Lipsen in "Anwalt Abel" in 1988. Played Thorsten Brehme in "Wolffs Revier" in 1992. Performed in "Der Knappe des Kreuzes" in 1993. Played Holubek in "Auf eigene Gefahr" in 1993. Played Eduard Nemec in "Kommissar Rex" in 1994. Played Robert in "Schwurgericht" in 1995. Played Lukas in "Schlafes Bruder" in 1995. Played Skipper Rasmussen in "Wilsberg" in 1995. Played Eric in "Gegen den Wind" in 1995. Played Heino Overbeck in "Balko" in 1995. Played Richie Schwingbrodt in "Balko" in 1995. Performed in "After Hours" in 1996. Performed in "Sperling" in 1996. Performed in "Ballermann 6" in 1997. Played Robert in "Der Mordsfilm" in 1997. Played Godfrey in "Appetite" in 1998. Played Siebert in "Nichts als die Wahrheit" in 1999. Played Jim J. in "Sara Amerika" in 1999. Played Scouser in "The Calling" in 2000. Played Ede in "Sass" in 2001. Played Flex in "Himmlische Helden" in 2001. Played Thomas in "Vienna" in 2002. Played Konrad Rottmann in "Die Rosenheim-Cops" in 2002. Played Ratko in "Extreme Ops" in 2002. Played Josef Ritter in "Die Sitte" in 2002. Played Ingo in "Feiertag" in 2002. Played Fliege in "Die Musterknaben III - 1000 und eine Nacht..." in 2003. Played Victor Renko in "Baltic Storm" in 2003. Played Richard Wippe in "Meine Frau, meine Freunde und ich" in 2004. Played Matador in "Abgefahren" in 2004. Played Steve in "Rose" in 2005. Performed in "Speer und er" in 2005. Played Louis Doderer in "FC Venus" in 2006. Played Dieter in "Neben der Spur" in 2007. Played Kurt Buck in "Gwendolyn" in 2007. Played Richter in "Die Jagd nach dem Schatz der Nibelungen" in 2008. Played Stefan Murbach in "SOKO Stuttgart" in 2009. Played Klaus in "Mein" in 2009. Performed in "Gotthard: Unconditional Faith" in 2009. Played Mann aus Plattenladen in "Alles Liebe" in 2010. Played Referee Arthur Donovan in "Max Schmeling" in 2010. Played Mechaniker in "Pilgerfahrt nach Padua" in 2011. Played Haydrich in "Lidice" in 2011. Played Pfarrer in "Nemez" in 2012.

Czechoslovakia had a sad history during the war. It was a new nation, created from the wreckage of the old Hapsburg Empire ("Austru-Hungaria") at the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919. It was called "Czechoslovakia" because the two largest ethnic groups in this new country were the Czechs and the Slovaks, but there were other ethnic groups, most notably and most troublesome being the ethnic Germans, called the "Sudeten Germans" because they lived in the Sudentenland in western Czechoslovakia.

As Hitler built his war machine and increased his power in the 1930s he began to peck away at the territory of his neighbors. First in 1935 he "remilitarized" the Rhineland, which at least was German territory, but under the Versailles Treaty no German military was to be stationed there, on the French border, but Hitler did exactly that and no one stopped him. Then there was the "Anschluss" in 1938, where Hitler forcibly annexed Austria to Germany (Hitler was born in Austria), and Austria ceased to exist as an independent nation, and became "Ostmark", a province of greater Germany.

Next Hitler turned his attention to the Sudenten Germans, alleging that the Czechs were discriminating against and abusing these ethnic Germans in their country, who were appealing to Hitler to help. This led to the shameful, disgusting affair at Munich in late 1938. The French President and the British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, met with Hitler in Munich, Germany. Neither France nor Britain was ready yet to confront Hitler in his greedy grabs for territory - the memory of WWI was still too fresh, their people unwilling yet to go to war to stop Hitler, which is what it would have taken. If war HAD come sometime in 1935-38, it would have been much easier to win, as Hitler was as yet nowhere near as strong or formidable as he was hell-bent on becoming, as rapidly as possible, but the will to stop him did not exist. So Hitler promised Daladier and Chamberlain that with the addition of the Sudentenland to Germany, he would be satisfied, all his demands would have been met, he would make no more trouble and leave his neighbors in peace. So those two pusillanimous "statesmen" went into a room with Hitler, not inviting in the Czech president, who was left cooling his heels in the hallway outside, while France and Britain agreed that Hitler could have that part of Czechoslovakia he craved. Then the Czech president was called in and informed of what had been done to his nation. Chamberlain flew back to England crowing about "peace in our time" and waving the papers of the "Munich Agreement", but less than a year later Hitler invaded Poland, and after three days of dithering Britain and France were finally shamed into declaring war on Germany. In the meantime, Hitler had just gone ahead and taken over all of Czechoslovakia, without bothering to hold any conferences with anybody. Czechoslovakia disappeared and in its place was the "Gau" of Bohmeia and Moravia.

One thing that made Czechoslovakia so attractive to the Germans was that it was a very industrialized nation, full of educated and productive people. Hitler was particularly avaricious for the massive industrial complex at Skoda, which made munitions of war, then and today. The Czechs manufactured tanks, to which the Germans helped themselves, and when Hitler blitzed into France two of his ten armored divisions were equipped with Czech tanks. These were light tanks by late-war standards, but effective in 1940.

As in all countries overrun by the Nazis in Europe some people were happy with the new arrangement - the right wingers, the local Nazis, ethnic Germans. And those men were glad for the chance to join units meant to fight alongside the German military. Other people were appalled - the moderates, the nationalists, the left wingers and communists, and fled when they could, or formed units of "resistance fighters" who stayed at home and did what they could, in the face of secret police, denouncements by local collaborators with the Nazis, massive reprisal killings of innocent civilians (the Germans liked to kill ten people rounded up at random for every German soldier killed by the underground).

The Czech Legion was mostly Czech soldiers who managed to escape from their homeland at the German takeover, and by various epic journeys made their way to England, where the British gave them uniforms, equipment, weapons, and a place in the fighting, and they fought through the six years of the war. Some returned afterward to Russian-dominated Czechoslovakia, but many left again after a time, and lived the rest of their lives as expatriates.

Two members of the Czech Legion were selected and trained by the British, and then inserted back into Czechoslovakia as part of a commando team, to cooperate with the Resistance in a special mission (the Resistance was also sustained by parachute drops of supplies at night by the British, and was in radio contact with the British with clandestine transmitters). The goal of this mission was to kill one of the biggest murdering Nazi swine of them all, one of the architects of the "Final Solution", a high official of the SS, Reinhard Heydrich, who had become "Gauleiter of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia". This they did, tossing a hand grenade into his open convertible car on a street in Prague. Heydrich lingered a week in agony, which could not have been as severe as one would have wished or as he deserved. In retaliation the Germans slaughtered all the inhabitants of the village of Lidice, near Prague - men, women, children, old people - all of them.

Many members of the Resistance in every occupied nation in Europe were communists. But when the Soviet forces came west in 1944 and 1945, they did not trust these local communists to hew to the Party Line, to jump when Stalin said jump and generally toe the mark. The Russians had their own Czech communists, who had fled to Moscow and spent the war years there being indoctrinated into the joys of complete subservience to Moscow, and the ways and means of running a Russian puppet state, and these were the people installed to run Czechoslovakia after the war. Nevertheless the Czech people were a fractious and independent bunch and these local puppets were not always able to flog the people into line where the Russians wanted them, so it was necessary in 1948, and again in 1968, for the Soviets to temporarily drop the pretense of happy communist solidarity, without a dissenting whisper to be heard, and to send in the Russian tanks to clamp the lid on the Czechs.

At the end of WWII, the Sudenten Germans were forcibly expelled from Czechoslovakia, and forced into Germany, where they were refugees, just like millions of other refugee "displaced persons" wandering Europe in the post war wreckage.

The Czechs finally got their country back with the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 90s.

See the Related Link below for an article on Lidice.

The role of "spies" in W.W.2 was a major component. They were controlled by the dept. in Britain called S.O.E. (Special Operations Executive,) whose H.Q. was in Baker st. London. their job was recruiting agents in the country that they were serving in,France,Belgium,Norway, Denmark,etc.each country had its own controlling desk.they also gathered inteligence info.of troop movements,defence constuction which the invasion forces would have to overcome,whenever that would be,Anything that might prove valuable,and also carried out sabotage. They were trained at Camp "X" at Oshawa in Ontario,Canada and at secret country houses in U.K. The British Secret Inteligence Service had been formed about 1906,but S.O.E. was a different unit,just as O,S.S. was different from Hoover's F.B.I. U.S. agents fom the O.S.S. (Office of Strategic Service,)Formed by Col. (Wild Bill) Donovan a W.W.1 hero and millionaire Layer in 1942 also trained at Camp "X". they outgrew any foreign help and its teams swarmed all over Europe and North Africa. By the end of the war Allen Dulles its chief in Switzerland was running a powerful network. O.S.S. was closed after the war, but resurrected during the "cold war" as the C.I.A. (Central Inteligence Agency). Other Governments-in-exile were also running their own security services, including the Russian N.K.V.D.and G.R.U.