PRAGUE - Thousands of Czech people, including top politicians and foreign diplomats, attended Sunday a memorial ceremony in village Lidice, the place where one of the best remembered massacre took place 70 years ago.

Teddy bears are placed at the Lidice Memorial during a remembrance ceremony honouring the 70th anniversary of the destruction of Lidice village by Germans forces, in Lidice June 10, 2012. [Photo/Agencies]

In an act of vengeance for killing Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich by Czech paratroopers, German policemen and soldiers totally destroyed the whole village and killed 340 of its inhabitants, including 88 out of 105 its small children.

Prime Ministr Petr Necas stressed that the massacre, though it was not an isolated act of terror, still played crucial role in rallying world public opinion against Nazi inhuman regime and appreciated recent bold apology made by current German President Joachim Gauck who praised the paratroopers act.

A concert of 14 children choirs in Lidice closes the ceremony.