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A RAY OF LIGHT. REINHARD HEYDRICH, LIDICE, AND THE NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE MINERS

PHILLIPS RUSSEL

Editorial
INGRAM
Año edición
2016
ISBN
978-0-9955133-0-3
Encuadernación
Rústica
Páginas
94
Idioma
Castellano
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Arnold Bennett Prize finalist. How North Staffordshire miners saved a Czech village during WWii. Lidice was a peaceful and vibrant community in Czechoslovakia with a rich mining heritage. But an act of Nazi revenge saw this village wiped from existence in a horrifying chapter of European history. Disaster struck for Lidice in 1942 when the prominent Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich was assassinated. Described by Hitler as the man with an iron heart , Heydrich was one of the key architects of the Holocaust. His death, after an attack by members of the Czech resistance, left Hitler furious and desperate for vengeance. Looking for a scapegoat to blame for Heydrich's death, he settled on the village of Lidice, which had been falsely linked to the assassination. in a brutal act which shocked the world, Lidice was completely destroyed. The men were shot while the women and children were rounded up and sent to their deaths in Nazi conce

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