The Germans attack positions held by the Scots Guards and South African, who fight to the last gun. By nightfall, the 201st Guards Brigade must retreat. General Ritchie, commanding the 8th Army, decides to retreat. In Kladno, Czechoslovakia, the 198 women and 98 children deported from Lidice, still unfed and ignorant of their husbands' deaths, are packed into cattle cars and buses, children separated from their mothers. The women are sent by rail to Ravensbruck concentration camp, where 35 are sent on to Auschwitz, where they are used for medical experiments.
None survive the war.
The rest are swallowed up in Ravensbruck for three years of toil, starvation, and beatings. Only 143 survive to see liberation, and search for their lost children. The 99 children are taken away. Eight, under one year old, are taken to a hospital in Prague to be reared as Germans. The rest go to Lodz in Poland, where the SS Race and Resettlement Office pick out nine more as suitable for Germanization.