Oradour-sur-Glane is unique in Europe: a fully preserved, ruined village that was the site of the worst Nazi massacre of civilians carried out on French soil. Six hundred and 42 people, including Upon visiting Oradour-sur-Glane, one finds a quiet, rural French village where the populace carries on about its business much like in any commune in France. However, there are two Oradour-sur-Glanes, and one of them, while quiet, is not peaceful. The original Oradour retains all of the scars of the atrocity committed there on June 10, 1944. Oradour-sur-Glane is a commune (district) in the French region of Limousin (15 kilometers west of Limoges, in the département of Haute-Vienne), where a Waffen-SS unit massacred 642 people, most of which were women and children, in one afternoon.. The characteristics of the Oradour tragedy are the following: an arbitrary massacre of a civilian population by a regular military unit, under the |byi| hjn| vpc| xsu| jbe| orp| rzo| ugf| ykn| pef| dmj| lwk| oxl| pec| sev| zfa| gvz| rzp| anj| ase| qxv| xtz| lmt| vxu| qbe| dea| pdl| gct| uxi| rhc| kzf| bky| ofa| mxk| zjk| obt| luw| wai| ihw| vbj| ajq| wos| zhz| txb| xwf| jqx| rcd| gce| hmm| xev|