After the Nazi Regime marched into Prague, Hitler appointed Reinhard Heydrich to keep order in Prague over the Czechoslovakian citizens.
But today we learned that the Czech resistance had other plans for Heydrich’s future in Prague. This morning we visited the assassination site of Reinhard Heydrich in the north part of the city. Following our tour guide, we ran up and down the street reenacting the action-packed, premeditated attempt to kill Heydrich who was 2nd in command of the SS army.
The slightly over cast, gloomy weather set the tone while visiting the historical Lidice village that sits just outside of Prague. This village was the victim of Hitlers revenge, due to his anger resulting from the death of Heydrich. Hitler killed over one hundred men, woman and children along with burning and destroying the city to the ground.
Today was more impressively interesting because every site we visited related to on another. Learning chronologically, while visiting the actual sites of these events made it easy to understand Prague’s involvement in WWII.
-KC
