Existing comment:
Retaliate:
Members of the resistance faced immediate arrest and punishment if discovered. Torture, deportation to concentration camps and execution were typical.
A Whole Community Paid:
To protect agents in France, the SOE masterminded the assassination of Gestapo commander Reinhard Heydrich in Czechoslovakia. Nazi retaliation was swift, bloody and cost 5,000 innocent lives -- every male inhabitant of the Czech village of Lidice was slaughtered, the women deported to concentration camps and the children sent to gas chambers.
The Lidice massacre, together with German reprisals in other cities, essentially liquidated the Czech Underground. |