Si vous passez un jour par Limoges, dans le Limousin, allez à Oradour-sur-Glane, village-martyr.
Oradour-sur-Glane is a small village in central-western France.
During WWII the German Nazis occupied France, causing destruction to many areas across the country. On the 10th of June 1944, a Nazi division invaded Oradour-sur-Glane , after reports that a German officer was being held hostage at the nearby town of Oradour-sur-Vayres.
On this morning they sealed off the town confusing the town with Oradour-sur-Vayres. They prohibited people from entering and exiting the town and seized the town people’s identity papers. The women and children were taken and locked in a local church while the men where led to barns, where their legs were shot before the division set the barn alight, killing all 195 men, except 5. All 642 people were killed in a matter of a few hours. To this day, the town has been left in the same state that it was left on this day in 1944. 
Issy Skinner
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on ne peut pas laisser de commentaire… trop fort d’émotion!!!
Commentaire par wavelet — 14 juin, 2010 @ 7:22 |
Am going to Limoges next week and hope to visit Oradour. Don’t know what to expect but know it will be emotional.
Commentaire par TONY — 6 août, 2010 @ 9:28 |
oradour et les villages detruites pedant la gurre de 14 se unisent dans le meme priere devant dieu.
Commentaire par grau isabel — 27 mars, 2011 @ 4:30 |