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<p>A class of boys from the school in <a href="/narrative/11405/en">Oradour</a>. All of the people pictured here were killed by the SS during the June 10, 1944, massacre. Oradour-sur-Glane, France, photograph taken between 1940 and June 1944.</p>

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<p>A class of boys from the school in <a href="/narrative/11405/en">Oradour</a>. All of the people pictured here were killed by the SS during the June 10, 1944, massacre. Oradour-sur-Glane, France, photograph taken between 1940 and June 1944.</p>
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A class of boys from the school in Oradour
<p>A school class of girls in Oradour. All of the children pictured were killed by the SS during the June 10, 1944, massacre. Oradour-sur-Glane, France, photograph taken 1942–43.</p>
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A school class of girls in Oradour
<p>Josef Gabnik, a Czech resistance fighter and parachutist who participated in the assassination of <a href="/narrative/10812/en">Reinhard Heydrich</a>, the Nazi governor of Bohemia and Moravia. Prague, Czechoslovakia, probably May 1942.</p> <p>Gabcik was one of the Czech agents who had trainined in Great Britain and then parachuted into German-occupied Czech territory to assassinate Heydrich. As Heydrich traveled on a familiar route to the airport to fly to Hitler's headquarters for a meeting, two agents succeeded in rolling a hand grenade under his car. Though not mortally wounded by the blast itself, the grenade splinters in Heydrich’s leg and lower back led to an infection that killed him little more than a week later. In retaliation for the attack, the Germans unleashed a wave of terror against the Czechs. For example, they destroyed the Czech village of <a href="/narrative/11788/en">Lidice</a>, shooting all the men in the village and deporting most of the women and children to camps in Germany.</p>
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Czech resistance fighter Josef Gabcik
<p>SS officers stand among the rubble of <a href="/narrative/11788/en">Lidice</a> during the demolition of the town's ruins in reprisal for the assasination of <a href="/narrative/10812/en">Reinhard Heydrich</a>. Czechoslovakia, between June 10 and June 30, 1942.</p>
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Destruction of Lidice
<p><a href="/narrative/11788/en">Lidice</a> in smoke. The Nazis destroyed the Czech village in reprisal for the assassination by Czech resistance fighters of <a href="/narrative/10812/en">Reinhard Heydrich</a>. Czechoslovakia, June 1942.</p>
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Lidice
<p><a href="/narrative/11788/en">Lidice</a> in smoke. The Nazis destroyed the Czech village in reprisal for the assassination by Czech resistance fighters of <a href="/narrative/10812/en">Reinhard Heydrich</a>. Czechoslovakia, June 1942.</p>
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Lidice in smoke
<p>A school class of girls in Oradour. All of the children pictured were killed by the SS during the June 10, 1944, massacre. Oradour-sur-Glane, France, photograph taken 1942–43.</p>
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Oradour-sur-Glane
<p>The Machefer family in Oradour. All of the people pictured here, except for the father, were killed by the SS during the June 10, 1944, massacre. <a href="/narrative/11405/en">Oradour-sur-Glane</a>, France, October 1943.</p>
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Photograph of the Machefer family in Oradour
<p>Ruins in <a href="/narrative/11405/en">Oradour-sur-Glane</a>, France. The town was destroyed by the SS on June 10, 1944. Photograph taken in September 1944.</p>
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Ruins in Oradour-sur-Glane
<p>The ruins of <a href="/narrative/11405/en">Oradour-sur-Glane</a>, destroyed by the SS on June 10, 1944. Oradour-sur-Glane, France, photograph taken in September 1944.</p>
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Ruins of Oradour-sur-Glane

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