The Forgotten Czech Resistance of Operation Anthropoid

After Heydrich's assassination, the village of Lidice was destroyed — 172 men executed, women sent to Ravensbrück, children sent to Germany. But the Czech resistance's response to this horror was even more courageous than the assassination itself. Within 3 weeks, the underground newspaper 'V boj' reported the atrocity to the world and called for renewed resistance. The Czech resistance, rather than being crushed, grew stronger in the subsequent months — because the horror of Lidice galvanized the population. Lidice was so completely erased that the Nazis even diverted a stream to flood the site.