European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Iras of the at Ose respond of ten Nul who would is it a fas betrayed the ill hiding in t up a fight i the nazis and they according june at be in Berlin Lidice a i Hix Imler s to a out mercy enemies of turned their during the Umed a letter chs slaying a said in How Lidice Onsbie for of the Para tit they had i to set an Tapo made a r our Sobers of toy l the Ger Iteen in 0 Prague and know what nazis had a 1 my handwriting j my parents Gestapo said or had been nearby Plani it had been so the nazis by the manager who suspected it was written by the killers of the letter said something like i have finished my meet me in the usual spot i must leave the a turned the with whom i was not acquainted Over to the Gestapo and she denied but the Gestapo had the letter and it was Lidice they wanted to they used that letter As an excuse for blaming me for Heydrich for killing my and for massacring who was charged with the was in England at the time and received the news of the leveling of my Home Over the wire the Berlin on june the Day after Heydrich carried this Brief account of the Lidice Mas Sacre All male adults of the town were while the women were placed in a concentration Camp and children were entrusted to appropriate educational the township was levelled to 4he ground and the name of the Community the inhabitants numbered major Horak remembers Lidice Well he also knows the Story of each building in the Village and the part it played in the nazi where the sign he said is the schoolhouse i the Khoo House in which the nazis kept the women and children during the night while they held the men in the of my fathers the morning of june 10 the children came out of the school House for the last with their they were loaded on though they did not know the Fate of the and taken to the Camp at there the children were snatched from their mothers who were taken to the Savens Bruck concentration of the 184 Lidice women sent to the thirty two died of tortures and were murdered in the Gas the children were carried Teto the Reich to be in turning from the the officer indicated a Barren spot to the left of the mass grave of 114106 that was my it vat also the deathbed of the after the women and children the Gestapo shot All the supposedly More than sixteen Yean but they didst bother to Check Ages and a number of children were also the corpses of the Lidice men Lay on the ground in the rank Garden for two Days until jewish inmates of the Terezin concentration Camp were brought to Lidice dig a mass after Lidice men were the jews were re turned to the Carnap and immediately put into the Gas chamber so they could not Tell of the nazi r then the final looting Homes were valuable paint Ings were taken from the centuries old Church and the cemetery was what you see on the Hill Horak is not what i left he motioned towards a Square plot of ground on the South slope of the Valley overlooking the Fields of there Stone and wooden crosses marked the Graves of the ancestors of the nazi victims buried in the mass grave was a Beautiful old i the stones were Large and Well carved and the grounds Well kept and but the nazis Tore Down the dug up the bodies and looted the jewelry buried with the theirs is a strange they made their work houses were torn Down Stone by the ground was flattened and Corn was they were deter mined that Lidice would not be rec it is not the Village x because there is no but memories and to me that Lump where the boys Are walking will always be the ice hockey rink and that plot will always be my the Gestapo did its Job of retribution Well All that was five years the tread of the invaders Boot no longer is heard in major Horas he is Back in Czechoslovakia stationed at the air ministry in where he lives with his British wife and two now a has remained in England with his Horak returns often to his Home and he still Calls it his residence and asks that mail be addressed major Josef he will be there when memorial rites will be held for the martyred this year they will have a new signify for the men who were responsible for the massacre were hanged in april and the work has started on new to be built near the spot where the old Village a corporation has been set up by the czech parliament to administer funds donated from Many countries for the reconstruction of a new june 8 the Cornerstone of the first building is being the new Lidice will have a research Institute where mining accidents and diseases will be studied so that in time More miners will owe their lives to Lidice than were killed by the the site of the Lidice major Horak knew will remain simple evidence of Germany crime to my family and my pass that baby that Story about some new film Starlet is Apt to be a press agents nursed on scotch ideas come very easy to a press All he needs is a bottle i of scotch to help the ideas a typewriter in Case he gets one and a scissors so in Case he Doest get he can always clip a few that some other press agent has coaxed from his own bottle of with this meager equipment he sits Down and to play a Little game of he makes believe the girl Singer Hes handling is sweeter than Dinah the band Hes working for is hotter than or the movie Hes plugging is bigger than gone with the wind and the sex Hasslinger who does a Walkon in the third reel is the greatest discovery since Hudson All this he now the Only question is How to make the Public believe the our Man will believe any thing they see in print if they see it often that the answer get in the c lets take the imaginary Case a press because no press agent is Ever named is handling one of Hollywood thousands of movie kind of Young thing with legs that turn up every week on the picture pages wearing a pair of shorts and a lets face Arthur says to him this girl is the hottest thing since Only the Public Doest know it How Are we going to Tell he nuzzling the scotch bottle and leafing through the pages of a last weeks newspaper with his free hand what does the Public want to read about inflation nuclear fission the revival of the land Reform party in Southern Rhodesia nothing in that heres a cute Little item about baby Sitters going to form a baby he thinks slapping himself on the forehead the Heel of his that baby now we dont mean to suggest that anything like this was the Case with Marilyn the eighteen Earold Hollywood Starlet whose pictures appear below and on the next the publicity accompanying says that she was discovered by a casting director who had called her to sit with his after one look at the the handout the director forgot where he and the missus had planned to go that evening and set about the business of putting miss Monroe into the As far As were concerned this is the straight dope and miss Monroe is a genuine baby Sitter from Way its just an unfortunate coincidence that we happened to be writing about an imaginary press agent and an imaginary movie Starlet when some body deposited miss Monroe pictures on our miss Monroe probably Doest even have a press and if she Hes probably elderly Man who  stoop to tricks like the one weve whats More were willing to bet she even likes photographs by Dave in i baby sitting is a sure step toward film at least its surely going to be for Marilyn Shes the big girl on sol the the Little ones dont have a press poor if turn the Page for Morf pictures