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As part of systematic reprisals for deaths of German soldiers and ethnic German civilians during the invasion of Poland, German army troops execute Poles in Cycow, Poland, in September 1939.
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A class of boys from the school in Oradour. All of the people pictured here were killed by the SS during the June 10, 1944, massacre. Oradour-sur-Glane, France, photograph taken between 1940 and June 1944.
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A class of boys from the school in Oradour
A school class of girls in Oradour. All of the children pictured were killed by the SS during the June 10, 1944, massacre. Oradour-sur-Glane, France, photograph taken 1942–43.
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A school class of girls in Oradour
SS officers stand among the rubble of Lidice during the demolition of the town's ruins in reprisal for the assasination of Reinhard Heydrich. Czechoslovakia, between June 10 and June 30, 1942.
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Destruction of Lidice
Czech resistance fighters attacked Reinhard Heydrich, acting governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, in an ambush near Prague in May 1942. Heydrich died of his wounds on June 4, 1942. In retaliation for the attack, the Germans destroyed the village of Lidice on June 10, 1942. The Germans shot all the men in the village and deported most of the women and children to camps in Germany. This footage shows destroyed homes and German officials inspecting the remains of the village.
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Germans Destroy Lidice
Jozef Gabčik was a Slovak member of the Czechoslovak armed forces who trained in Great Britain and parachuted into German-occupied Czech territory to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich. As Heydrich traveled on a familiar route to the airport to fly to Hitler's headquarters for a meeting, two agents succeeded in rolling a modified British anti-tank grenade under his car. The blast itself did not cause immediate death. Heydrich died a little over a week later. The official autopsy report determined that the cause of death was blood poisoning due to bacterial infections affecting the liver, kidney, and heart tissue. In retaliation for the attack, the Germans unleashed a wave of terror against the Czechs. For example, they destroyed the Czech village of Lidice, shooting all the men in the village and deporting most of the women and children to camps in Germany.
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Jozef Gabčík
Lidice in smoke. The Nazis destroyed the Czech village in reprisal for the assassination by Czech resistance fighters of Reinhard Heydrich. Czechoslovakia, June 1942.
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Lidice: The Annihilation of a Czech Town
Lidice in smoke. The Nazis destroyed the Czech village in reprisal for the assassination by Czech resistance fighters of Reinhard Heydrich. Czechoslovakia, June 1942.
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Lidice in smoke
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Operation Harvest Festival
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Operation Reinhard
The Machefer family in Oradour. All of the people pictured here, except for the father, were killed by the SS during the June 10, 1944, massacre. Oradour-sur-Glane, France, October 1943.
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Photograph of the Machefer family in Oradour
Ruins in Oradour-sur-Glane, France. The town was destroyed by the SS on June 10, 1944. Photograph taken in September 1944.
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Ruins in Oradour-sur-Glane
The ruins of Oradour-sur-Glane, destroyed by the SS on June 10, 1944. Oradour-sur-Glane, France, photograph taken in September 1944.
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Ruins of Oradour-sur-Glane

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