CZECHOSLOVAKIA: President and locals pay tribute to massacred village (1945)

GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Czechs attending a memorial service to commemorate the massacre at Lidice, in which the town’s entire population of more than 500 was killed by the Nazis in June 1942, in reprisal for the killing of SS Police Chief Obergruppenfuhrer Reinherd Heydrich . Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: Lidice is remembered CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Lidice: Pilgrims along country road and carrying flowers to site of massacre. Edvard Benes (President of Czechoslovakia) along carrying floral tribute and standing with others in silence at memorial site. Background: Czechs attending a memorial service to commemorate the massacre at Lidice, in which the town’s entire population of more than 500 was killed by the Nazis in June 1942, in reprisal for the killing of SS Police Chief Obergruppenfuhrer Reinherd Heydrich . FILM ID: VLVAAXY8VWWF37VU5ZICD3N9P7RXQ To license this film, visit