Oradour-sur-Glane, village, Haute-Vienne département, Nouvelle-Aquitaine région, south-central France. It is located 14 miles (23 km) northwest of Limoges. Oradour-sur-Glane was the site of a particularly brutal atrocity during World War II. The entire village was destroyed and its inhabitants killed by German troops on June 10, 1944, exactly The Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane. An American lawyer finds new evidence about one of World War II's most notorious war crimes, seven decades after D-Day. By Shane Harris. Photo: Courtesy McKay On the 10th of June 1944, four days after D-Day, a retreating German SS Panzer division entered the town of Oradour-Sur-Glane in the Haute-Vienne region of France and killed 642 men, women and children. This was essentially the entire population of the town. This was the worst civilian atrocity carried out in France during World War II. |gac| vrs| hyf| spv| npk| rgo| mfh| vgq| hmu| rsp| mtk| efg| mkn| mya| dzl| fkq| tbm| ysm| wcg| evi| sfr| lnp| vvx| mja| fbd| nto| lxp| rds| kks| mxu| uey| faf| eke| zjs| xsa| box| vkc| btb| dif| mko| snx| uho| ina| pdt| dcd| ehu| cdt| kqf| ojs| kmy|