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Oradour-sur-Glane
On a summer day in 1944 . . . The Nazis came. They stayed only a few hours. When they had gone, the community which had lived for a thousand years. was dead.
This is Oradour-sur-Glane, in France. The day the Germans came, the villagers were gathered together. The men were taken to garages and barns, the women and children were led down this road and driven into the church. Here, they heard the firing as the men were shot. Then they were massacred too inside the church.
They never rebuilt Oradour. Its ruins are a memorial.
An amazingly powerful memorial.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-IKzTED70o
Oradour-sur-Glane
On a summer day in 1944 . . . The Nazis came. They stayed only a few hours. When they had gone, the community which had lived for a thousand years. was dead.
This is Oradour-sur-Glane, in France. The day the Germans came, the villagers were gathered together. The men were taken to garages and barns, the women and children were led down this road and driven into the church. Here, they heard the firing as the men were shot. Then they were massacred too inside the church.
They never rebuilt Oradour. Its ruins are a memorial.
An amazingly powerful memorial.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-IKzTED70o