What is Lidice and Ordour?
Lidice, Bohemia. About 200 men massacred in revenge for the terrorist assassination by Czechs of Reichs Protector of Bohemia and Moravia Reinhard Heydrich. More than 300 women and children sent to concentration camps, where about half of them died. June, 1942.
Oradour-sur-Glane 642 men, women and children burned and machine gunned to death in revenge for the capture and murder of a high-ranking and very admired SS officer. France, 1944.