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In the village of Lidice, a tragic event unfolded on June 10, 1942. As retribution for the assassination of Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich, Hitler ordered the complete destruction of Lidice. Nazi forces rounded up and executed all 173 men over 15 years old. The women and children were separated; women were sent to concentration camps, while most children were considered racially unsuitable for Germanization and were murdered. The village was then burned to the ground, and its name was removed from maps. In total, about 340 people from Lidice were killed in a brutal act of collective punishment, leaving a permanent scar on the community and serving as a stark reminder of the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany during the occupation of Czechoslovakia.