Kraus, a Jewish journalist from Prague, describes a period of time whereby he is interned in a Jewish ghetto in Czekoslovakia. While on his way to the ghetto, he describes seeing a poster that SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich was murdered by Jews. To set an example, the Germans intend to raise the town of Lidice, as it was believed to house the Jews who killed him.
Subsequently, Kraus (among 30 men) are rounded up the guards and ordered to grab digging tools and get onto a truck. He details the trip and describes the destination, a town called Lidice a scene right out of Dante's Inferno. Everything is on fire and there are bodies lying around everywhere. He and the work crew are ordered to dig a trench and do so for 36 hours straight, being given a single piece of black bread the whole time. After they get the trench dug, they are ordered to remove the shoes, identification, and anything of value, while watching his best friend Langendorf get beaten by Seidl, a German SS officer.
After this, they are ordered back onto the truck and taken back to the ghetto where they are allowed to return to their barracks and immediately fall asleep.
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