I got emotionally involved with a town called Lidice, in Czechoslovakia. It's really important in my life and has been fucking it up for three years now.' Tony's eyes looked up towards the ceiling not wanted to be distracted.
On June 9, 1942 Germany surrounded this town in the morning. The women were taken to concentration camps in Ravensbruck and the children to concentration camps in Poland. At 6:30 in the morning 173 men over the age of 15 were executed before a firing squad and the town completely leveled by dynamite in retaliation for the death of Heydrich, Himmler's right hand man. Six months later 83 children under the age of 15 were gassed and their bodies buried in Chelm, Poland. Eight children were chosen to be turned into Germany and given to childless Germans families after two years of training. 'After the war these eight children along with 140 of the women still alive at Ravensbruck returned to a town which had been completely obliterated.
They rebuilt Lidice.' Tony's eyes leveled: 'You know, after that incident a town in Illinois changed its name to Lidice and since then 36 towns in the world have been renamed Lidice.
I cried every day for four months interviewing these courageous women. A book was going to be written about it but no contract came through.
But on the 40th anniversary of this event - I will finish a big musical work for Lidice.

Tony Scott finished to record his musical work on Lidice memories and called his music:
Requiem for The Children of Lidice