English Translation

194 proposed police measures." (551) The instruction for bloody revenge on the civilian population came on the day of the assassination of the Reich Protector R.Heydrich directly from Hitler. After a telephone conversation with Hitler shortly after noon 27.5.1942 K.H. Frank remarked: ... that the helpers of the perpetrators of the assassination or those who do not report their stay should be shot with their whole family, finally that 10,000 suspects of Bohemia should be arrested and if arrested, they should be killed in concentration camps.(552) On the same night, this instruction should be confirmed and specified by Himmler by teletyping, stating that "Amidst the 10,000 hostages ordered, the entire Czech opposition intelligence should be apprehended in the first place...From the main opponents of this Czech intelligence should have shot a hundred of the most important ones tonight."(553) After the intervention of K.H.Frank, who unexpectedly flew off to Hitler's main tent of "The Wolf Door" in East Prussku, Hitler abandoned the intent of mass executions. Frank argued, threatened the operation of the war economy, and "50 000 to 100,000 relatives arrested would really turn against each other as a sharp front". Originally intended concept of mass killing moved to the plane of a mill of nerves. (554) The Nazi fury culminated in the night of 9. to 10. June 1942 in the village of Lidice, where the Nazis shot 173 detained men over 15 years of age, a total of 199, when they executed those who were not in Lidica at a critical time, and 16 June and the entire families of Horák and Stříbrné. 184 women were transported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp, 7 to the police prison in Terezín, 4 pregnant women to the hospital in Prague, 88 children were transferred to Lodz and 7 younger one year to a children's home in Prague; 3 children were sent to the Reich and one severely ill woman was left in a hospital in Kladno. (555) September after Lidice followed Ležáky. On 24th June 1942, the SS took a raid against the village. Without interrogating any of the detainees, on the same day the sentence of the martial court was read to them - the death penalty. The next day the Nazis first shot 18 women and then 15 lager men, the following day the young stonemason Karle Tomek was executed.