Oradour-sur-Glane massacre - Wikipedia
On 10 June 1944, four days after D-Day, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in Nazi-occupied France 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 in the area including the capture and subsequent ...
Oradour-sur-Glane: Martyred Village - The National WWII Museum
Before the war, Oradour-sur-Glane was a quiet, rural community in central France. In 1944, the village was left in ruins after German Waffen-SS troops massacred 642 men, women, and children before burning the village to the ground.
Oradour-Sur-Glane: Haunting Photos Of The Mysterious Nazi …
Sep 3, 2017 · On the afternoon of June 10, 1944, 642 men, women, and children were murdered in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane, France gunned down by troops of the German army's 2nd SS Panzer Division. Following the massacre, the bodies were either burned by the Nazi soldiers or left where they lay as the men looted the town and set it ablaze before leaving.
Oradour-sur-Glane by Rick Steves
Lost in lush countryside, two hours north of the most popular and scenic stretch of the Dordogne River, Oradour-sur-Glane is one of the most powerful sights in all of France, and worth going out of your way to see. The "Village des Martyrs," as it is now known, was machine-gunned and burned by Nazi troops on June 10, 1944 (four days after D-Day ...
Oradour-sur-Glane: The Brutal WW2 Massacre That Still Haunts …
But what drove the SS to commit such an act in a country that was supposed to be collaborating with Nazi Germany? And why, out of all the villages in west-central France, was Oradour-sur-Glane selected as a target?
Le Périgord dans la Seconde Guerre - histoire-en-partage
Chronique des années noires du Mussidanais et de l'ouest de la Dordogne. Le 11 juin 1944 à Mussidan, cinquante-deux habitants de la commune et des villages alentour étaient exécutés en représailles de l’attaque d’un train de protection allemand par la Résistance.
L'occupation allemande en Périgord : témoignages et documents
Le Sipo-SD, la sinistre police allemande connue sous le nom de « Gestapo », réquisitionna les locaux du Crédit Lyonnais de la préfecture de la Dordogne. Ces lieux devinrent le symbole de l’oppression et de la terreur nazies.
The Resistance: Maryse and Monette - agents and life-savers
Apr 16, 2019 · Vichy politicians such as Pierre Laval were keen to fulfil quotas set by the Nazis and raids (rafles) took place in the Dordogne and elsewhere throughout 1942, 1943 and 1944, even continuing after the D-Day landings had sparked German thoughts of retreat.
Neuvic-sur-l'isle Dordogne 1944 : The great train robbery
The heist, surely the greatest of all time, was carried out by the Résistance with information provided by government officials and pretty much helped along by the Banque du France and the money helped liberate the region. Within a month there wasn't one German left in the Dordogne.
Germany’s Nazi art returns from Gurlitt trove to a French family
Jan 22, 2020 · Return in Berlin: three works of art identified as Nazi-looted art were restituted
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