Cesty za oponu času 2 - Ozvěny lidické noci – Motl Stanislav (2018)

Lidice, Ležáky, Javoříčko, Leskovice and other places where the fires of Death once burned. And the long-forgotten stories and human fates associated with them: a man who killed his son, a forbidden love that led to the extermination of Lidice, a secret mass over the grave of the murdered men of Lidice, a boy from Ležáky who narrowly escaped his executioners. I did not want to write or produce television and radio reports solely about the victims and the murderers. I longed to find the masterminds behind these crimes. The executing murderers, commanders, or initiators of the bloody events. And also perhaps ordinary soldiers who participated in these actions – whether voluntarily or involuntarily. I wanted to hear their opinions, their memories, their explanations. It was not just about Lidice or other villages with a similar fate, but about other cases of mass murders of people, such as when retreating German Nazis massacred over a hundred civilians just hours before the end of the war around Jihlava. Velké Meziříčí, Třešť and other places – who knows about them today? My search was long; for example, tracing the footsteps of the former commander of Pelhřimov, SS Hauptsturmführer Walter Hauck, who is responsible for the extermination of the village of Leskovice, took nearly twenty years and led me not only...