sentences:  On occasions, the Germans massacred the inhabitants, as happened at Oradour-sur-Glane in France and Lidice in Czechoslovakia.The German reprisal policy was deliberately exploited by Soviet partisans, who would place killed Germans near neutral villages in order to trigger a reaction.The Soviets hoped that the resultant retaliatory killings and house demolitions would goad the villagers into actively supporting the partisans.