Lidice

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Area: 4.7 km?

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Population: 451 (2003)

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Lidice (Liditz in German) is a village in Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) which was completely eradicated by the Nazis during World War II.

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The village is first mentioned in writing in 1318. After the industrialisation of the area, many of its people worked in mines and factories in the neighbouring cities of Kladno and Slan?.

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German: German may mean:...

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