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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.
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.
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.
A school class of girls in Oradour. All of the children pictured were killed by the SS during the June 10, 1944, massacre. Oradour-sur-Glane, France, photograph taken 1942–43.
May 16, 2024 · Oradour-sur-Glane, village, Haute-Vienne département, Nouvelle-Aquitaine région, south-central France. It is located 14 miles (23 km) northwest of Limoges. Oradour-sur-Glane was the site of a particularly brutal atrocity during World War II.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Centre de la mémoire d'Oradour (the memorial center of Oradour) has made it its mission to commemorate the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre by the 2nd armoured division of the Waffen-SS "Das Reich" and to act as a memorial for coming generations.
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Jun 18, 2023 · Le 10 juin 1944, la Division S.S. Das Reich exécute 643 personnes, pille et incendie le bourg paisible d’Oradour-sur-Glane. Les nazis, en déroute, commettent ici un véritable crime de masse, le plus important massacre de civils en France durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.