Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Thu, 23 Jul 2026 04:47:17 +0200https://english.radio.cz/newly-released-documents-show-churchill-wanted-bomb-german-villages-revenge-8624210© 2026 Radio Prague InternationalFascinating wartime documents have just been released in Britain that shed light on one of the dark moments of Czech history. On a June morning in 1942 people in the Nazi occupied Czech Lands woke up to a chilling radio announcement. In ice-cold tones a voice in German said that the village of Lidice not far from Prague had been wiped off the map, and all the men shot. This was in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Hitler's man in charge of the Czech lands, who was killed a few weeks before by Czech parachutists sent from London. The Lidice massacre sent shockwaves round the world, and the archives that have been released in London, reveal how the British cabinet reacted in the immediate aftermath of the atrocity. David Vaughan reports.encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/lidice1_3.jpg?timestamp=1591456557 https://english.radio.cz/newly-released-documents-show-churchill-wanted-bomb-german-villages-revenge-8624210 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9