<p><a href="/narrative/11788">Lidice</a> in smoke. The Nazis destroyed the Czech village in reprisal for the assassination by Czech resistance fighters of <a href="/narrative/10812">Reinhard Heydrich</a>. Czechoslovakia, June 1942.</p> — Lidice in smoke. The Nazis destroyed the Czech village in reprisal for the assassination by Czech resistance fighters of Reinhard Heydrich. Czechoslovakia, June 1942.