HISTORY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Mohamed Boudiaf, Oujda, Abane Ramdane
Document Summary
From the aftermath of world war ii in 1945-49 to the liberation of the. Portuguese colonies in 1974-75: state terror and reprisals: 2 cases, lidice i, post 1945: a crisis of colonial order. Is a village north of prague and on the 27th of may 1942 the rice protector (nazi government official) the ss leader was assassinated by two members of a team of resistance fighters parachuted in by the british. The nazis selected the village lidice for complete obliteration because of this act. It was completely destroyed and bulldozed: 642 men women and children were murdered by an ss company in reprisal for the taking hostage of an ss officer by a french resistance group. The village was chosen and destroyed as well: village in france c. In nazi occupied eastern europe, this kind of mass killing was everyday. In a way the behavior of the italian fascists and nazis set a new standard of new violence after 1945.
