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Ležáky

Abandoned village in the Czech Republic

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Jan 13, 2026
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Was “one of ours all of yours” ever verbatim said by nazis?

The short answer: there is no reliable evidence in the provided reporting that the exact phrase “One of ours, all of yours” was a documented, verbatim slogan used by Nazi officials, and several of the...

Jan 13, 2026
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Are there primary-source Nazi documents that use a phrase equivalent to “One of ours, all of yours”?

No primary-source Nazi document has been shown to contain the exact English wording “One of ours, all of yours,” and multiple independent accounts note the absence of archival proof for that precise p...

Jan 20, 2026
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What did historians say about the origins of the phrase linked to Lidice and SS reprisals?

Historians say the phrase commonly paraphrased as “one of ours, all of yours” is not a verbatim Nazi slogan documented in primary records but is a concise summation created after the fact to describe ...

Jan 13, 2026

What primary sources document Nazi reprisal orders after the 1942 Heydrich assassination?

The immediate Nazi reprisals after the May–June 1942 assassination of Reinhard Heydrich are widely reported as having been ordered at the highest levels of the Nazi regime—most sources say Adolf Hitle...

Jan 12, 2026

What verbatim wording appears in Karl Hermann Frank’s dispatches and Adolf Hitler’s communications regarding reprisals for Heydrich’s death?

Karl Hermann Frank’s contemporaneous proclamations include an official bilingual broadside headed “BEKANNTMACHUNG” / “VYHLASKA” that, hours after the May 27, 1942 assassination attempt on Reinhard Hey...

Jan 13, 2026

How have historians debated the causal link between Operation Anthropoid and the specific selection of Lidice and Ležáky for annihilation?

Historians agree that the annihilation of Lidice and Ležáky was a direct Nazi reprisal after Operation Anthropoid, but they remain divided about how specifically the assassination caused those two vil...

Jan 19, 2026

Which German archives hold SS, Gestapo or Reich Chancellery files relating to reprisals after Heydrich's assassination?

Surviving Nazi security and police records relevant to the reprisals after Reinhard Heydrich’s assassination are primarily preserved among captured RSHA/Gestapo files that were taken by Allied authori...

Jan 16, 2026

What archival evidence exists in Gestapo reports about the investigation linking Lidice to Heydrich’s assassins?

Gestapo archival reporting—reproduced in postwar histories and reference works—recorded that investigators briefly suspected Lidice because several Czechoslovak army officers exiled in Britain had ori...

Feb 3, 2026

Did the Nazis use the phrase one of ours all of yours

The exact English slogan "" is not documented as a phrase used verbatim by ; multiple historians and fact-checkers who reviewed the claim found no primary-source evidence connecting that specific word...

Jan 13, 2026

What primary sources document Nazi orders for collective reprisals after the Heydrich assassination?

Contemporary archival orders that precipitated mass reprisals after Reinhard Heydrich’s assassination are referenced in leading institutions’ accounts: Hitler’s directive on 9 June 1942 to carry out r...