Pete Stone CPAGB
Oradour-sur-Glane 2............
Just an hours drive away from where i'm staying is a small French town which was the site of one of the worst mindless massacres carried out by the Nazis in retaliation for work carried out by the French resistance during WW2.
The town had been far from any centre of conflict, was not, nor had ever been an active resistance stronghold. Yet on that Saturday, men from the Der Führer Regiment of the 2nd Waffen SS Panzer Division Das Reich, drove into Oradour and killed everyone that they could find, a total of 642 men, women and children. The town was then looted and every building, set on fire.
After the war ended, General Charles de Gaulle declared the village a national monument, a testament to the violence suffered by the French during World War II. It was to remain as it was left, burned and empty.
Oradour-sur-Glane 2............
Just an hours drive away from where i'm staying is a small French town which was the site of one of the worst mindless massacres carried out by the Nazis in retaliation for work carried out by the French resistance during WW2.
The town had been far from any centre of conflict, was not, nor had ever been an active resistance stronghold. Yet on that Saturday, men from the Der Führer Regiment of the 2nd Waffen SS Panzer Division Das Reich, drove into Oradour and killed everyone that they could find, a total of 642 men, women and children. The town was then looted and every building, set on fire.
After the war ended, General Charles de Gaulle declared the village a national monument, a testament to the violence suffered by the French during World War II. It was to remain as it was left, burned and empty.