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10 June 1944, in retaliation for the sabotage attacks by the French Resistance, the idyllic village of Oradour-sur-Glane was razed to the ground and 642 innocent residents massacred by Waffen-SS soldiers. A new settlement was built post-war but the ruins of the martyred village have been preserved to bear silent witness to the atrocities of war, to serve as a startling reminder of barbarity, to commemorate the dead and ensure that nobody forgets. Each entrance to the ruins bears a notice that say "Remember", and having seen the crumbling walls, wrecked cars, and abandoned houses, you'll be haunted by this image for a long time.
AVARAGE RATINGAddress: Limoges, France
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Rodger
Apr 3, 2010 9:52 PM
MY RATING:
The "retaliation" conjecture is probably just that. The massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane was a part of German strategy, carried out often and far, to intimidate populations into fear of cooperation with underground activists. To my knowledge there was no maquis activity in or even near Oradour, There is even additional conjecture that the Nazi SSWaffen command got the wrong village (there is another Oradour just south).