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This mining village sadly made history on June 10, 1942, a few days after the attack in Prague on Reinhardt Heydrich, the Reich's protector. The population of Lidice is accused of hiding the perpetrators of the attack, parachuted from England. They are in fact refugees in a church in Prague. But the Gestapo, in retaliation, still shot nearly 200 men and deported as many women and children to concentration camps. The village is completely razed to the ground. A new village was built a few hundred metres away and a memorial now stands on the site of the martyred village.