Editing Lidice massacre (section)

===Reprisals===
Late in the afternoon of 27 May, SS-''[[Gruppenführer]]'' [[Karl Hermann Frank]] proclaimed a state of emergency and placed a curfew in Prague.<ref name="Kaplan239">Jan Kaplan and Krystyna Nosarzewska, ''Prague: The Turbulent Century'' p. 239</ref> Anyone who helped the attackers was to be executed along with their families.<ref name="Kaplan239"/> A search involving 21,000 men began and 36,000 houses were checked.<ref name="Kaplan239"/> By 4 June, 157 people had been executed as a result of the reprisals but the assassins had not been found and no information was forthcoming.<ref name="Kaplan239"/>

The eulogies at Heydrich's funeral in [[Berlin]] were not yet over when, on 9 June, the decision was made to "make up for his death". Frank, Secretary of State for the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, reported from Berlin that the ''[[Führer]]'' had commanded the following concerning any village found to have harbored Heydrich's killers:<ref name="Kaplan246">Jan Kaplan and Krystyna Nosarzewska, ''Prague: The Turbulent Century'' p. 246</ref>

#Execute all men
#Transport all women to a concentration camp
#Gather the children suitable for Germanisation, then place them in SS families in the Reich and bring the rest of the children up in other ways
#Burn down the village and level it entirely