Oradour-sur-Glane is the name of a village in Limousin, nearby Limoges, where 642 of its inhabitants, including women and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company on 10 June 1944.
Oradour-sur-Glane is a commune in Haute-Vienne, a department of Nouvelle-Aquitaine in west-central France, with a population of 2,477 as of 2019. It is best known for the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre, which occurred on 10 June 1944 (four days after the Normandy landings on D-Day), in which 642 inhabitants, including 207 children, were killed by Nazi German troops. Only a handful of people survived by feigning death. The massacre was led by Adolf Diekmann, who had intended to attack the nearby village of Oradour-sur-Vayres, which had supported French and Belgian Resistance fighters, but took a wrong turn en route. After the war, a new settlement was built nearby, while the destroyed village was preserved on the orders of Charles de Gaulle as a memorial, alongside the Centre de la mémoire d'Oradour, a commemorative museum.
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JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 8 pts · 113d
Shit, and I was anticipating that murderous psychopath Dirlewanger.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Dirlewanger
Those poor people. Fuck.
Hmm, also reminds me a bit of "Everything is Illuminated," starring Frodo Baggins.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_Is_Illuminated_(film)
Really lovely, culturally-interesting film IMO.
tumbleweed05@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 113d
The 1973/1974 series The World At War narrated by Laurence Olivier mentions this memorial. Such an example of the atrocities humans are capable of. Horrifying.