In response, the Nazis swept into the village of Lidice, which was wrongfully suspected to have hid co-conspirators, and wiped it out. They executed 340 people, including every male resident over the age of 14, as well as 82 children, who were gassed to death after being transported to a concentration camp.
On May 27, 1942, members of the Czech resistance killed a monster. Though the assassination itself was a comedy of errors involving jammed machine guns and “close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades” grenade throws, Reich Protector Reynard Heidrich, the brutal overseer of Czechoslovakia and a prime mover of the Holocaust, died of his wounds several days later.
In this episode of The Prisoner, a clockmaker Villager played by actor Martin Miller, a Czech Jew, plots to assassinate the Village’s overseer, Number Two. In that context, I think Number Six can be forgiven for what he does, or doesn’t do, next.
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