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Oradour-sur-glane A Warning from history

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Uploaded by on Apr 18, 2009

A massacre took place in the town of Oradour-sur-Glane, in the Haute-Vienne region of France on Saturday 10th of June 1944. The town had been far from any centre of conflict, was not, nor had ever been an active resistance stronghold. Yet on that Saturday, men from the Der Führer Regiment of the 2nd Waffen SS Panzer Division Das Reich, drove into Oradour and killed everyone that they could find, a total of 642 men, women and children. The town was then looted and every building, set on fire. To this day there is no universally agreed explanation as to why the SS acted as they did, or why they chose Oradour for their attack. All the principal characters on the SS side are now dead and the few French survivors of the town were not given any clues by the troops as to why they were acting as they were.

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  • I have been there, it is totally silent as people visiting cannot believe what they are seeing and reading.

  • 5* mate

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