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Sep 2, 2005 · The main street of Oradour-sur Glane. This is a photograph which I took during a visit to the French village Oradour-sur-Glane on June 11 2004, exactly 60 years after its destruction by the German paramilitary Waffen-SS during World War II. The two persons on the right are friends of mine.
Sep 2, 2005 · The entrance to Oradour-sur-Glane. This is a photograph which I took during a visit to the French village Oradour-sur-Glane on June 11 2004, exactly 60 years after its destruction by the German army during World War II. Date: 11 June 2004
Sep 2, 2005 · The main street of Oradour-sur Glane, just outside the church. This is a photograph which I took during a visit to the French village Oradour-sur-Glane on June 11 2004, exactly 60 years after its destruction by the German army during World War II.
Aug 28, 2011 · Traces the events surrounding a small French village during the Nazi occupation of France during WWII.SEE AN UPDATED VERSION OF THIS VIDEO CLICK THIS LINK:ht...
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One of the most chilling questions surrounding the event is the reason why these troops massacred all but seven people in the entire village. No official cause for such unjust carnage has ever been confirmed, and nearly all participants and survivors are now deceased.
The small French village wasn't near any major points of conflict and should have been relatively out of harm's way from German soldiers. Reports say the German division had been previously stationed in the southern French town of Valence-d'Agen, and on the morning of June 10, moved into Oradour-sur-Glane, supposedly to pick up SS officer Helmut Kä...
Upon arriving in the quaint village, senior officer Adolf Diekmann ordered all inhabitants into the town square with their identity papers in hand. Again, what circumstances exactly led to the killing are not clear, but the women and children were locked in the church while the men were led into six barns that already had machine guns in place. The...
Showing even harsher cruelty towards the women and children, Diekmann's men then set the church on fire and shot any persons who tried to escape. Diekmann would later claim at his war crimes trial that the massacre was in retaliation for the kidnapping of German officer Helmut Kämpfe. Shockingly, none of the men involved in the ruthless massacre di...
The story of the massacre of an entire French village in WWII by the German SS. Village of Death: Oradour-Sure-Glane 1944 is presented by your local public television station. Distributed ...
Aug 28, 2009 · Oradour-sur-Glane, France. This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II. Been Here? 331. Want to Visit? 1365....
