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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A village of the northwest Czech Republic west-northwest of Prague. In reprisal for the murder of a Nazi official, German forces killed its male population, deported the women and children to concentration camps, and burned the village to the ground (June 9–10, 1942). The village was rebuilt following the end of World War II.
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In June 1942 the Nazis shot every man in Lidice, sent every woman to a concentration camp and razed every building in Lidice to the ground.
The Enemy ITY Brown University 1997
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Wild accusations about the U.K. and USA governments "torturing and murdering" captured prisoners and concocting false accusations about my "caring about skin colour" and false allegations that I "agree with the Nazis" (about atrocities such as Lidice?) are no more persuasive than shouting any other abuse.
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“and concocting false accusations about my "caring about skin colour" and false allegations that I "agree with the Nazis" (about atrocities such as Lidice?) are no more persuasive than shouting any other abuse”.
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In 1942, the Nazi forces razed the Czech village of Lidice to the ground, its 173 male residents shot and most of its women and children transported to concentration camps.
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Finnemore's photographs hint obliquely at loss of life through images of the endurance of everyday objects; Ventura photographs images of the war created in table-top miniature; Trezise's A Child Called Lidice suggests that the very act of obliteration of the village means it lives on, just as it does here.
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To Pam Lough, too, for her generous hospitality, and to Lidice Ortiz for the same.
Kook Peter Heller 2010
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After the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich on May 27, 1942, the Germans retaliated by murdering all the adult males in the Czech village of Lidice outright; the women and children were sent to the camps, where they perished as well.
Deathride John Mosier 2010
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Lidice was neither the first example of brutal reprisal nor was it an isolated one.
Deathride John Mosier 2010
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After the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich on May 27, 1942, the Germans retaliated by murdering all the adult males in the Czech village of Lidice outright; the women and children were sent to the camps, where they perished as well.
Deathride John Mosier 2010
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Lidice was neither the first example of brutal reprisal nor was it an isolated one.
Deathride John Mosier 2010
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