ORADOUR - SUR - GLANE MASSACRE VIDEO (PART 4) WW 2 FRANCE.

In the afternoon of 10th June 1944 a detachment of SS troops arrived in Oradour-sur-Glane, a peaceful town near the city of Limoges in central France. The troops sealed off the entrances to the town and rounded up the inhabitants, including those they had collected from nearby farms on their way in. The assembled residents were initially told that this was to be an identity check. However the women and children were then separated from the men folk and the (200 or so) men were split up into smaller groups and taken to various barns or warehouses around the town centre where SS troops set up machine guns facing them. The women and children (approx 450 of them) were taken to the church and locked in. On a pre-determined signal the machine gunners opened fire on all the men, slaughtering them in cold blood. Once the firing had ceased the troops covered the dead and dying with wood and straw and set fire to them. At the church, soldiers brought in a box containing some sort of explosive device and detonated it amidst the terrified women and children. It is believed that this was supposed to produce an asphyxiating gas rather than being purely explosive, however its effect was to set the women and children into a screaming panic. The SS then started firing their machine guns into the church through the doors and windows and also threw in hand grenades to murder the women and children. As with the barns where the men were held, the SS then piled in wood and straw and set light to the church. They then proceeded to loot the town and burn down all the buildings. Only one woman managed to escape from the church, through one of the windows. Several of the men escaped the slaughter at the various barns and managed to hide or flee the town. At the end of the day, the SS had murdered a total of 642 men women and children. Following the war the French government decided to preserve the town in its ruined state as a memorial to the murdered inhabitants. It is today still possible to visit the town and get and idea of the terrible atrocity carried out there. I personally made a visit to Oradour in June 2005 and the following pages are presented in the interests of those who are unable to visit the town themselves.

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[TOPCAMERMAN]

Hi my friend and thank you for your comments maybe you should direct this comment to the lady you see at the end of the video her brother was shot and then burned ask her to forgive.

Regards T.C.

[TheEltel01]

yet another scar from a war when it was the innocent that lost lives normal people just going about there daily lives . I did hear the german soldgiers that invaded that village got the wrong place it should have been a village just down the road from there the german soldgiers were after the french informers.The day we visited there was some young german people you could see on there faces even they couldn't understand this madness of what went on in that village that day .

[TOPCAMERMAN]

@TheEltel01 Thank you for your comments what you say is true please enjoy the rest of my channel

Regards John T.C.

[britanichris]

Hi John,

Thankyou for leaving feedback my friend.

We were only able to spend an afternoon in Oradour so of course missed part of what you have posted. What I must go back and see is the kids fishing pond,we never saw that and it looks such a peacefull place now. We are kids orientated and have 7 grandkids now and spend much time with them fishing etc etc. Limoge is a nice place to stay aswell, we stayed in our motorhome overnight in the layby towards the new Oradour. Happy Xmas God be with you

[TOPCAMERMAN]

@britanichris Thank you for your comments as for the kids fishing pond I had to get special permission to film that part of Oradour as you say it is very peacefull and a place to stop and think.

Regards John.

[bexler53]

How can we ever forgive the crimes which were committed. Germany now as a nation should help those starving in Africa by sharing their technology, building schools, hospitals. We can forget the passed and do as if it never existed.

We need to forgive and love but at the same there should be an indemnity paid.

"Wir haben es nicht gewusst" shouldn't be an easy way out for neglecting the

terrible crimes which were committed in the name of " Unsere Vatersland"