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Reinhardt Heydrich was assassinated not in 1943 but on May 29, 1942; Heydrich died on June 4. He was replaced as head of the RSHA by Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and the Final Solution (still in its earliest stages) continued unimpeded. The operation against the Polish Jews, including the camps of Treblinka, Belzec and Sobibor, was renamed 'Project Reinhardt', in honour of Heydrich. The consequences of the assassination included the transfer of 3,000 Jews from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz, the killing of 152 Jewish hostages in Berlin, and (most famously) the destruction of the village of Lidice on June 9. All males over 16 were killed (191 in total) and women and children were shipped to Ravensbrueck. The assassins were trapped in the cellar of Karl Borromaeus Church in Prague, together with 200 members of the Czech underground. All were killed. In addition, over 1,300 Czech hostages were shot. Steve Paulsson tel. (44)116 252 2802 Director fax (44)116 252 3986 Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust Studies Department of History University of Leicester University Road Leicester LE1 7RH England E-mail gsp3@le.ac.uk Take nothing on its looks, take everything on evidence. There is no better rule. (Dickens, Great Expectations)
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