Czechoslovak resistance exhibition opened at memorial site

Czech Minister of Defence Martin Barták opened an exhibition on Wednesday to mark the Czechoslovak resistance to Nazi occupation and in particular the assassination of the highest ranked Nazi during World War II, acting protector of Bohemia Reinhard Heydrich. The exhibition is in the central Prague church of St Cyril and Methodius. That was the site where the Czechoslovak parachutists who carried out the assassination in May 1942 were corned and killed.

Thousands of Czechs were killed in reprisals following Heydrich’s death from his injuries. The revenge attacks included the flattening of the Lidice and Ležáky villages and execution of many of their occupants.