This excerpt from a United News reel shows a ceremony in newly-named Lidice, Illinois, commemorating the Czech village destroyed by Germans in 1942. For photographs of the destruction of Lidice, see Alan Taylor's World War II retrospective.
To watch this newsreel in its entirety, visit the Internet Archive.




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