World War II sites in the Czech Republic

Terezín (; ) is a town in Litoměřice District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,900 inhabitants. It is a former military fortress composed of the citadel and adjacent walled garrison town. The town centre is well preserved and is protected as an urban monument reservation. Terezín is most infamously the location of the Nazis' Theresienstadt Ghetto.

complete destruction of village and massacre of its population as a Nazi reprisal

architectural structure

site of Nazi war crimes in Czechia

Javoříčko is a village and municipal part of Luká in Olomouc District in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 40 inhabitants. The village is known as the site of a Nazi massacre during World War II, which left it almost completely destroyed.

thumb|300px|Ploština memorial Ploština was a small settlement in what is today the municipality of Drnovice in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. On 19 April 1945, at the end of World War II, it was burned and its people were massacred by Nazis in response to their support of the anti-Nazi resistance movement. The massacre was conducted by the German special SS unit Zur besonderen Verwendung-Kommando Nr. 31, led by Walter Pawlofski, and by the SS anti-partisan unit Josef consisting of members of Slovak Hlinka-Guard, whose headquarters was in Vizovice.