Lidice
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Lidice is a municipality and village in Kladno District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 600 inhabitants.
Municipal office
Park in the centre of Lidice
Lidice Memorial, with gloriette and museum
Kurt Daluege
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Kurt Daluege was a high-ranking German police and SS official who served as chief of Ordnungspolizei of Nazi Germany from 1936 to 1943, as well as the Deputy/Acting Protector of Bohemia and Moravia fr
Lidice
…is built near the site of the previous village, which was completely destroyed on 10 June 1942 on orders from Adolf Hitler and acting Reichsprotektor Kurt Daluege in reprisal for the assassination of Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich. The name is derived from the personal name Lída (in old Czech written as Ľúda…
Daluege in 1936
Daluege in 1933
Himmler and Daluege (right), at the swearing in of Austrian police to Hitler in Heroes' Square during the Anschluss.
Daluege (right) in Kraków in 1939, shaking hands with Heinrich Himmler (left). Hans Frank (center) stands between them.