Lidice

[li-dyi-tse; English lee-duh-chey, lid-uh-see]

noun

a village in the W Czech Republic: suffered a ruthless reprisal by the Nazis in 1942 for the assassination of a high Nazi official.

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British Dictionary definitions for lidice

Lidice

noun

a mining village in the Czech Republic: destroyed by the Germans in 1942 in reprisal for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich; rebuilt as a national memorial

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