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    Ležáky (Czech pronunciation: [ˈlɛʒaːkɪ], German: Ležak, from 1939: Lezaky), in the Miřetice municipality, was a village in Czechoslovakia. During the...
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    organizing the massacres of the people of the Czech villages of Lidice and Ležáky. Born in Karlsbad, Bohemia, in Austria-Hungary (present-day Karlovy Vary...
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    "Jan Kubiš's remembrance in Dolní Vilémovice 2003–2012". Vojensko-historický klub Erika Brno. 2014. "History of the hamlet of Ležáky". Ležáky Memorial....
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    out his whole family or village, just as they had wiped out Lidice and Ležáky. It is posited that this was the key factor in his actions. In the film...
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    Slovak soldiers and resistance partisans to the villages of Lidice and Ležáky. Both villages were razed; the men and boys age 14 and above were shot and...
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    Nazis exacted revenge, razing to the ground the two villages of Lidice and Ležáky. In October 1942, 1,331 people were sentenced to death by courts in the...
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    arrests and executions and the destruction of the villages of Lidice and Ležáky. In 1943 the German war effort was accelerated. Under the authority of Karl...
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  • German occupation of Byelorussia during World War II Koriukivka massacre Ležáky and Lidice List of massacres in Belarus Michniów Oradour-sur-Glane massacre...
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    village of Ležáky was also destroyed because a radio transmitter belonging to the Silver A team was found there. The men and women of Ležáky were murdered...
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    razed to the ground; its male inhabitants and all adults in the village of Ležáky were murdered. At least 1,300 people were executed by firing squads. Himmler...
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