The village of Lidice was razed to the ground by the Nazi Gestapo after the murder of the sadistic "protector" of occupied Czechoslovakia, and 173 men perished in vengeance. The Gestapo dragged the inhabitants of Lidice from their homes, shot all men over sixteen, and condemned all women and children to a living death in concentration camps. Lezaky also fell victim to the Nazi regime when the small Czech village was destroyed on June 24, 1942, and all inhabitants were shot and killed as an example to those who refused to succumb to tyranny.