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Those of you with more than one eye might like to read the following ....

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Heydrich.html

AS itemised above   Reinhard Heydrich  was one of the driving forces in the holocaust.

  SS-Obergruppenführer and General of Police Reinhard Heydrich had been Acting Reichsprotektor of the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. This area of the former Czechoslovakia had been occupied by Nazi Germany since 5 April 1939.

On the morning of 27 May 1942, Heydrich was being driven from his country villa at Panenské Břežany to his office at Prague Castle. When he reached the Kobylisy area of Prague, his car was attacked by the Slovak and Czech soldiers (on behalf of the Czechoslovak government-in-exile), Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš. These men, who had been part of a team trained in Great Britain, parachuted into Bohemia in December 1941 as part of Operation Anthropoid. After Gabčík's Sten gun jammed, Heydrich ordered his driver, SS-Oberscharführer Klein, to stop the car. When Heydrich stood up to shoot Gabčík, Kubiš threw a modified anti-tank grenade at Heydrich's car.
The explosion wounded Heydrich and Kubiš. Heydrich sent his driver, Klein, to chase Gabčík on foot. In the ensuing firefight, Gabčík shot Klein in the leg, below the knee. Both Kubiš and Gabčík managed to escape the scene.
On 4 June Heydrich died in Bulovka Hospital in Prague from septicaemia caused by pieces of upholstery entering his body when the bomb exploded.

Anyone who helped the attackers was to be executed along with their entire family. A massive search involving 21,000 men began. A total of 36,000 houses were checked. By 4 June 157 people had been executed as a result of the reprisals, but the assassins had not been found and no information was forthcoming.

Hitler had commanded the following concerning any village found to have harboured Heydrich's killers:
1.Execute all adult men
2.Transport all women to a concentration camp
3.Gather the children suitable for Germanisation, then place them in SS families in the Reich and bring the rest of the children up in other ways
4.Burn down the village and level it entirely

It was decided to burn down Lidice and execute the people.

The shooting of the men commenced at about 7.00 am. At first the men were shot in groups of five, but Böhme thought the executions were proceeding too slowly and ordered that ten men be shot at a time. The dead were left lying where they fell. This continued until the afternoon hours when there were 173 dead.
Another 11 men who were not in the village that day were arrested and murdered soon afterwards as were eight men and seven women already under arrest because they had relations serving with the Czech army in exile in the United Kingdom



A total of 203 women and 105 children were first taken to Lidice village school. They were then taken to the nearby town of Kladno and detained in the grammar school for three days. The children were separated from their mothers. Four women were pregnant and were sent to the same hospital where Heydrich died. They were forced to undergo abortions and then sent to different concentration camps. On 12 June 1942, 184 women of Lidice were loaded on trucks, driven to Kladno railway station and forced into a special passenger train guarded by an escort. On the morning of 14 June 1942, the train halted on a railway siding at the concentration camp at Ravensbrück. On their arrival the Lidice women were first isolated in a special block. The women were forced to work in leather processing, road building, textile and ammunition factories.

Eighty-eight Lidice children were transported to the area of the former textile factory in Gneisenau Street in Łódź. Their arrival was announced by a telegram from Horst Böhme's Prague office which ended with: the children are only bringing what they wear. No special care is desirable. The care was minimal. They suffered from a lack of hygiene and from illnesses. By order of the camp management, no medical care was given to the children. Shortly after their arrival in Łódź, officials from the Central Race and Settlement branch chose seven children for Germanisation. The few children considered racially suitable for Germanisation were handed over to SS families.

The furore over Lidice caused some hesitation over the fate of the remaining children. However, in late June Adolf Eichmann ordered the massacre of the remainder of the children. On 2 July 1942, all of the remaining 81 Lidice children were handed over to the Łódź Gestapo office, who in turn had them transported to the extermination camp at Chełmno 70 kilometres (43 miles) away, where they were gassed to death in Magirus gas vans. Out of the 105 Lidice children, 82 died in Chełmno, six died in the German Lebensborn orphanages and 17 returned home.

http://www.lidice-memorial.cz/mchild_history_en.aspx

As if this was not enough the remains of people already buried in the town cemetery were dug up and destroyed. All the pets were killed.
The entire process was filmed by Franz Treml. a collaborator with German intelligence.

In September 1942, coal miners in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire in Great Britain led by Sir Barnett Stross MP founded the organisation Lidice Shall Live to raise funds for the rebuilding of the village after the war.

In Gaza the 4th rated military power in the world, Israel is attacking Gaza - no rating.
Like Germany in 1941/2 Israel is an occupy power.
Like Germany then the reprisals far outweigh anything done by Gaza.

Israel - the modern facists.
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Report Safety_In_Numbers • July 20, 2014 7:08 AM BST
Not sure about any parallel between Nazi Germany and the current Israeli regime....but.

The international community is pretty much just standing by, while Israel obliterates Gaza, if this was done by anyone else there would be a huge public outcry and calls for sanctions against the offensive government.

Best coverage of this is on Al Jazeera.
Report FredRescue • July 20, 2014 10:48 AM BST
Why did Britain want to assinate Heydrich? Surely they knew what the reprisals would be like?
Report brigust1 • July 20, 2014 11:08 AM BST
The number of Palestinians killed since 2000, excluding this current crisis, totals 7,149 of which 1,581 were children. All of these victims live in an area where escape is impossible.
Report Slicer • July 20, 2014 11:20 AM BST
Mr Cat- I suppose if your neighbouring County started lobbing rockets at you and kidnapped and killed three students of your neighbourhood, you would let them get away with it!
If Hamas hides behind women and children, place rocket batteries near hospitals and schools, sends bomb laden donkeys, there are going to be casualties.

No point in discussing this situation on this or any other thread on BetFair as both the opposite opinions are firmly entrenched, just as in  world opinion. That is why the situation will never ever be resolved. End of my contribution to this discussion. No personal insults please. It's just my opinion, and you have yours!
Report ebulGery • July 20, 2014 12:25 PM BST
that is true...we have take sides Slicer

don't tell me, all that is happening now is justified by 3 dead students

Israel are doing a great evil in their defence, the US and West mindlessly backs them

so I am on the opposite side slicer

the basic problem remains...does Israel have any right to exist
the more they behave as they are doing, the more it tells they don't
I hope they change though
Report Stevie Strikes • July 20, 2014 12:44 PM BST
Israel has a right to exist.  It doesn't have a right to pursue its policy of lebensraum.
Report brigust1 • July 20, 2014 12:45 PM BST
The U.S. provides Israel $8.5 million in military aid each day, while it gives the Palestinians $0 in military aid. The Americans are as guilty of the atrocities as are the Israeli's. Ignorance is not an excuse.
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