Kurt Daluege: The Nazi Police Chief Behind the Lidice Massacre

Kurt Daluege isn't as widely remembered as Himmler, Heydrich or Eichmann, but he built the machinery a lot of their worst crimes ran on. As chief of Nazi Germany's Order Police for seven years, he turned a uniformed constabulary into an instrument of occupation, deportation and mass shooting. Then, in the summer of 1942, acting in Reinhard Heydrich's place, he gave the order that erased an entire Czech village from the map and sent its surviving children to a gas van. This is the story of his...