Abandoned village in the Czech Republic
Ploština
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.
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