I’ve been away for a while.
Hitler agitates for the independence of Slovakia to trigger the dismemberment and domination of Czechoslovakia. Hitler really hated the Czechs. In the pecking order of his hatreds, Czechs were tied for third with the Poles and Russians, right behind Jews and Communists.
It was the Czech community of Lidice that was exterminated as a retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.
I remember seeing a show on Heydrich about a year ago and they mentioned Lidice as the sufferers of retribution for his assassination. One of so many Nazi attrocities during the war that it actually gets lost in the white noise.