Ploština

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.

31, led by Walter Pawlofski, and by the SS anti-partisan unit Josef consisting of members of Slovak Hlinka-Guard,[2] whose headquarters was in Vizovice.

[2] A similar tragedy occurred on 23 April 1945 in the nearby village of Prlov, where fifteen people were burned, three hanged and one shot.

[3] Ladislav Mňačko, writer and a member of the partisan group "Ploština", described this tragedy in his book Death Is Called Engelchen.

[6] The topic was also developed in the 1963 Czechoslovak war film Death Is Called Engelchen, directed by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos.