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Wartheland). So far no trace of these children has been discovered.
7 of the youngest (less than a year old) were taken to a German
children's hospital in Prague and after examination by "racial
experts" sent to Germany. They were to be brought up as Germans
and were given German names. Every trace of them has been lost.
Two or three children were born in Ravensbriick concentration
camp. They were killed immediately after their birth.
The belongings of the population of Lidice were "confiscated".
Already on June 9th the Gestapo seized money, saving books and
other valuables. In the early morning of June 10th the cattle was
driven off and furniture, tools etc., removed to the BuStFthrad Court.
The land fell to the Reich.
In an official report of 10.6.42 published in the newspaper "Der
Neue Tag" on June llth, 1942, No. 159 (Annex 18) it was maintained
"that the population of the village of Lidice aided and abetted the
perpetrators" (i.e. the persons who participated in the attempt on
HEYDRICH), further that "illegal publications, dumps of arms and
ammunition" . . . . and "an illegal transmitter" were discovered in
Lidice and eventually that "the inhabitants of the locality were in
active service of the enemy abroad". ­
From a proclamation of 13.6.42 published in the newspaper
"Der Neue Tag" on June 14th, 1942, No. 162 (Annex 19) we learn
that neither the interrogation of the inhabitants of Lidice, nor
their massacre and the destruction of the village, led the German
authorities to any trace of the perpetrators. Again they promised
rewards to
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anybody supplying them with appropriate information and threat-
ened all those violating the obligation to inform the police, to be
shot with their family.
More remarkable than the strange contradiction between the
report of 10.6.42 and the proclamation of 13.6.42 is, however, the
fact that even a crime like that committed at Lidice 4as a founda-
tion in German "Law". That crime too is a "measure" which the
Reich Protector or the authorities delegated by him are allowed
to take during the state of civil emergency. The monstrous features
of that "measure" are instances of "deviations from the law in
force" which Section 2, 5 1 of the Ordinance of 17.9.41 had in mind.
Section 1, 5 2 of the Ordinance on Legislation in the Protectorate
of Bohemia and Moravia dated 7.6.1939 (RGBl.I,p.1039) (Annex 20)
lays down: "If there is any danger in delay the Reich Protector
has the authority to issue provisions of any kind. One provision