Mckenna Harpster Ms.Rushfeldt English, Block C February 26, 2024 The Small village of Lidice, Czechoslovika The village was quiet until the Nazi cars showed up in the early morning, nobody was awake or prepared for what was going to happen that day. This was the day that the small village of Litduice was not a village anymore, it was destroyed to the point where it was just dirt and rocks. The village was taken off the maps even though it was still there, you could not see anything because everything was gone: the homes, schools, the churches. In 1944, the people in Lidice had their village destroyed by the Nazis because Hitler believed that they killed his topman during the war. That early morning of June 9, 1942, 10 trucks filled with security …show more content…
While that was going on, the other Nazis were burning down school houses, homes, and the churches that were there. They had their village destroyed but other villages were not touched they were left alone, the reason why other villages were left alone was because Lidice was the sacrificial village and the other villages still had Germans living there so the Nazis only came for the Jews. There are also many other reasons why Lidice was the only village destroyed, which wasn’t even true: Hitler made that lie because he hated Jewish people. The reason was that Hitler told all the Nazis the lie and they believed him. Hitler said to them during World War II Lidice hired an assassin to kill his topman; his name was Heydrich. Heydrich was shot but he survived, so he was put in the hospital but a few days later he passed away from blood poisoning from the steel in his uniform when he was shot. Hitler believed that the Jews from Lidice killed him because the village was full of Jews, that’s why Hitler sent the Nazis to destroy the village. So the day came and the Nazis took over the small village of Lidice, Czechoslovakia and the people knew something bad was going to happen. The first
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