Lidice
This weekend, my sisters and I made an excursion to the nearby town Lidice, which was destroyed during the Second World War as retribution for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. The Lidice massacre is noted for its completely arbitrary nature as an example of wartime collective punishment. The entire male populace of the town was executed, and the women and children were sent to concentration and extermination camps – only a few “racially eligible” children were placed with SS families.