Eglize-Oradour-Sur-Glane-2022

This is the church of Oradour-sur-Glane where the Nazi's gathered the women and children of the village before murdering them...Oradour-sur-Glane was a small farming village located near Clermont-Ferrand, some 15 miles west-north-west of Limoges. During World War II, it was located in the German-occupied zone of France. On June 10, 1944, troops of the 2nd Waffen-SS Panzer Division (armored division), Das Reich, on the Sixt of June 1944, massacred 642 people, almost the entire population, and then destroyed the village. After the war, Oradour-sur-Glane rivaled Lidice as an iconic symbol of German crimes against civilians in occupied Europe.
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