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mylye2222

(2,992 posts) Tue Jun 3, 2014, 06:45 PM Jun 2014

Another 70 anniversary commemorated in France: Oradour sur Glane nazi massacre

Here's a powerfull artistic perpective tribute to that tragedy, and war crime

From Wikipedia english:

Oradour-sur-Glane (Occitan: Orador de Glana) is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.

The original population was destroyed on 10 June 1944, when 642 of its inhabitants, including women and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company. A new village was built after the war on a nearby site but on the orders of the then French president, Charles de Gaulle; the original has been maintained as a permanent memorial and museum.

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Another 70 anniversary commemorated in France: Oradour sur Glane nazi massacre (Original Post) mylye2222 Jun 2014 OP

Why were they all killed? jwirr Jun 2014 #1

The nazi division suspected the village sheltered partisans and munitions depot. mylye2222 Jun 2014 #2

Horrible. jwirr Jun 2014 #3

jwirr

(39,215 posts)

1. Why were they all killed?

Reply to mylye2222 (Original post)

Tue Jun 3, 2014, 07:42 PM

Jun 2014

mylye2222

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2. The nazi division suspected the village sheltered partisans and munitions depot.

Reply to jwirr (Reply #1)

Tue Jun 3, 2014, 07:57 PM

Jun 2014

There ver noting.
So they made that collective punishment.

Population was gathered in market place, then mens separated from woment and children. Men where taken to various places, like garages, or farm buildings, and shot. Women and choldren were lockes into the churched and burned.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)

3. Horrible.

Reply to mylye2222 (Reply #2)

Tue Jun 3, 2014, 08:00 PM

Jun 2014

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