Lower house speaker compares Nazis to Jihadi fanatics at Ležáky commemoration

A commemoration was held Sunday for the victims of Ležáky, a village which was picked out for retribution after the assassination of leading Nazi Reinhard Heydrich in Prague in May 1942. All 41 adults from the village, men and women, were executed and 11 out of 13 children sent to the gas chambers. Two sisters survived because they were placed with German families. The village, like Lidice, was razed to the ground. Speaker of the lower house, Jan Hamáček said at the commemoration that current Jihadi movements were similar to Nazism in that they used pseudo-religious arguments to justify war and world domination.

Author: Chris Johnstone