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The assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in 1942 and the subsequent reprisals, including the murder of Lidice's inhabitants.
The phrase “One of ours, all of yours” has been widely posted online as a direct Nazi slogan tied to the Lidice reprisal after the 1942 assassination of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, but the...
Primary evidence that Nazi leaders threatened and justified reprisals after Reinhard Heydrich’s May 1942 assassination appears in contemporaneous Nazi orders and official communications, in high-level...
The short phrase “One of ours, all of yours” is currently disputed: commentators trace it both to modern online slang and to violent reprisals in 20th‑century fascist contexts, while some analysts str...
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...
The Lidice massacre was the complete destruction of the Czech village of Lidice on 10 June 1942 carried out by German SS and police units as a reprisal for the assassination of Reichsprotektor Reinhar...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Primary German-language orders authorizing reprisals after Operation Anthropoid are not reproduced in the sources provided; contemporary secondary accounts record that Adolf Hitler, acting Protector o...
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...