Czechs search for dead 'heroes' who killed SS chief Heydrich

[uhnope]

Source: BBC

Surprisingly, the truth has begun to emerge only in the past decade.
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Historians and researchers agree the mass graves of this local cemetery are the final resting place not just for Gabcik and Kubis, but their five fellow parachutists, the dozens of citizens who sheltered them, and the hundreds shot in reprisal for Heydrich's death.

But while every Czech schoolchild has heard of Gabcik and Kubis, hardly anyone realises they are buried here.
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"If the Communist regime hadn't started in 1948, we would know exactly where Gabcik, Kubis and the others were. But because they flew from England, a capitalist state and our enemy, they weren't regarded as the heroes they should have been."

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36944090

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First person article, but the breaking news content is down in the piece.

[Journeyman]

1. One of the more touching monuments of the war, the Lidice Children's Victims Memorial . . .

The Lidice massacre was a complete destruction of Lidice, Czech Republic, in June 1942 on orders from Adolf Hitler and Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. In reprisal for the assassination of Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich in the late spring of 1942, all 173 men over 15 years of age from the village were executed on 10 June 1942. Another 11 men who were not in the village were arrested and executed soon afterwards, along with several others already under arrest. Meanwhile, 184 women and 88 children were deported to concentration camps; a few children considered racially suitable for Germanisation were handed over to SS families and the rest were sent to the Chełmno extermination camp where they were gassed to death. All together, about 340 people from Lidice died because of the German reprisal (192 men, 60 women and 88 children). After the war ended, only 153 women and 17 children returned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidice_massacre

[kairos12]

2. This incredible story needs to be told wide and far. It's about time.

[BlueMTexpat]

3. Full text of Edna St. Vincent Millay's

very moving poem "The Murder of Lidice," which is how I first learned about the story in the 1950s. http://www.tenhumbergreinhard.de/taeter-und-mitlaeufer/lieder-und-gedichte/the-murder-of-lidice.html

More about Edna St. Vincent Millay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_St._Vincent_Millay

During the first world war Millay had been a dedicated and active pacifist; however, from 1940 she supported the Allied Forces, writing in celebration of the war effort and later working with Writers' War Board to create propaganda, including poetry. Her reputation in poetry circles was damaged by her war work. Merle Rubin noted: "She seems to have caught more flak from the literary critics for supporting democracy than Ezra Pound did for championing fascism." In The New York Times, Millay mourned the Czechoslovak city of Lidice, the site of a Nazi massacre:

The whole world holds in its arms today
The murdered village of Lidice,
Like the murdered body of a little child.

In 1943 Millay was the sixth person and the second woman to be awarded the Frost Medal for her lifetime contribution to American poetry.

[JudyM]

4. Thanks for posting this - interesting!

[katmondoo]

5. I am crying and crying some more

and Trump wants to be able to use nukes whenever he wants. Does he want to create more villages like Lidice? Sad and scary to think what a Trump Presidency would be like..
Thank you BlueMTexpat

[BlueMTexpat]

6. I first heard a reading of

the poem when I was in high school. I remember being devastated at the time.

A Trump Presidency simply must NOT happen! In fact, there is NO Republican in today's party who should be allowed ANYWHERE near the WH. Some may not make total idiots of themselves, as Trump does every time he opens his mouth.

But they are every bit as dangerous, make no mistake about it!