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===Lidice===

The village was set on fire and the remains of the buildings destroyed with explosives. All the animals in the village—pets and [[Working animal|beasts of burden]]—were slaughtered as well. Even those buried in the town cemetery were not spared; their remains were dug up, looted for gold fillings and jewellery, and destroyed.<ref name="Kaplan241"/> A 100-strong German work party was then sent in to remove all visible remains of the village, re-route the stream running through it and the roads in and out. They then covered the entire area the village had occupied with topsoil and planted crops, and set up a barbed-wire fence around the site which had notices reading, in both Czech and German, "Anyone approaching this fence who does not halt when challenged will be shot". A film was made of the process by Franz Treml, a collaborator with German intelligence. Treml had run a [[Carl Zeiss AG|Zeiss-Ikon]] shop in Lucerna Palace in Prague and after the Nazi occupation, he became a film adviser for the [[Nazi Party]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Remains of Lidice in June 1942 |url=https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn556023 |website=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |access-date=5 April 2022 |format=film |archive-date=17 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220517053434/https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn556023 |url-status=live }}</ref>