 About 340 people from Lidice died because of the German reprisal (192 men, 60 women and 88 children) and after the war ended, only 153 women and 17 children returned.From 27 September 1941, SS-"Obergruppenführer" and General of Police Reinhard Heydrich had been acting as "Reichsprotektor" of the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.This area of the former state of Czechoslovakia had been occupied by Nazi Germany since 5 April 1939.