Oradour-sur-Glane

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After practising the French for a return ticket and being a solo passenger (except for a guy who worked there!), I arrived at Oradour-sur-Glane.

10th June 1944, the village was in Nazi-occupied France and was destroyed when 643 civilians, including non-combatant men, women, and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company as collective punishment for resistance activity against Nazi-occupation.

Their faces were placed on a picture wall, and knowing that they had all been burnt to ensure that they could not be identified was the hardest part to hear 😥. The museum noted it as a war crime and that this happened in several Nazi-occupied areas to deter uprisings.Read more