In the small town of Lidice, not far from Prague, there lived 1,200 human beings. Some worked in the orchards, gardens and fields which they owned; others were woodworkers and coal miners; still others walked 45 minutes every day to toil in the munitions plant at Kladno. Lidice had a churcht. Martin'swhich was nearly five centuries old and to which the people of four nearby villages flocked on Sundays.
Last week the Nazis removed Lidice from the map. German soldiers surrounded the village at dusk, moved in, sorted out all adult males...
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