Hey guys i know its been a while since I've posted on blogger... sorry...
Just something I wanted make aware to everyone if you didn't know what Lidice was.
When you hear what it is it may be something to consider for our interviews.
Lidice came up in the first paragraph of the 1943 letter to Adolf Hitler, from the Midwood high schools senior class.
(you know the letter you all liked...)
Dear Adolf,
Like all Americans, we've been thinking a lot about this war. Plain common sense tells us that it's either you or we. We know what we're fighting for. We're fighting for decency and liberty, for Lidice and Peal Harbor, for our past heritage and our future hopes.
That's the first paragraph of the letter... apparently Lidice was a village in Czechoslovakia, that was completely destroyed by the Germans during World War 2. On June 10th 1942 all adult men from the village were murdered by the Germans, and the rest of the population deported.
(This massacre was not Jewish related but and act of revenge)
Reinhard Heydrich who was a high ranking Reichspotektor of Nazi Germany was in this Village where he was assassinated by two Czechoslovakian resistance fighters.
The Fuhrer furious with revenge had declared to shoot all adult men to death, transport all women to a concentration camp, gather the children suitable for Germanization, then place them in SS families in the Reich. They then burned down the village and leveled it entirely....
The reason i thought we should take this into account with interviewing people in America is that this is a topic Not a lot of people know about today and apparently Seniors in high school knew about this back then and decided it was important enough to include in their letter to Adolf just as much as Pearl Harbor.
"We're fighting for decency liberty, for Lidice and Pearl Harbor...."
A lot of people didn't seem to know what was going on over seas at this time like with the concentration camps and if anyone knew anything they may have heard that the Jews were mostly targeted. From hearing Lidice in those times people may have seen how merciless the Nazis were and it might be a good question to bring up... "what did you think when you heard a whole town was massacred for the reason it was?" or something like that... i would imagine it would have strengthened the Americans resolve in fighting the war... and raised their thoughts that Hitler was a mad man and must be stopped...
well anyways just a thought and a piece of knowledge...
I'm planing on interviewing a really good subject this friday
Good Luck with everything guys
2 comments:
How are you using Lidice as an example of how horrible Germany was? What about Dresden? America decimated an entire town in Germany, killing tons of innocent civilians... and the American public barely batted an eye.
Im not using it as an example becca... the kids in 1943 are... and ya America did a lot of terrible with things we turned our heads to but we were very against the Germans and had a go get the Germans attitude. We didnt even know the extent of what was going over seas. For the senior class of 1943 to include Lidice right next to Pearl Harbor on the first page of their year book i would think it upheald somewhat an importance to people during that time who knew of very little. Im not one to say this was such a big thing and your not one to say this is such a small thing... its about the kids who lived in America during the time period and what they thought of it... and i dont think a lot of people know about this topic might be interesting and it couldnt hurt to ask...
and i believe Dresden was in 1945
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