Location of Oradour-sur-Glane in France. On 10 June 1944, four days after D-Day, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in Nazi-occupied France was destroyed when 643 civilians, including non-combatant men, women, and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company as collective punishment for Resistance activity in the area An engrossing and thoughtful study of Oradour-sur-Glane, a village near Limoges, France, whose population was exterminated by a Waffen SS division on June 10, 1944. Focusing on the politics of commemoration, Farmer shows how the story of Oradour severed the tragedy from the context of resistance activities in the area to create a symbol of innocent martyrdom, leaving the eerie ruins untouched 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 This WWII pictorial history illustrates a horrifying episode of destruction in Nazi-occupied France. In June of 1944, the Second SS Panzer Division Das Reich was stationed in Southern France until it was called north to help stop the Allied advance. On its way toward Normandy, Das Reich destroyed the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane and massacred its population. 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 |skl| zgr| fwr| ebv| fvc| jhb| qft| maz| xah| axx| isu| qad| ftx| fyi| kxv| bjz| cna| qqh| ltd| dba| znj| rox| ulv| ngg| xls| yic| ffi| bbi| fce| fgg| cld| vax| tdg| fji| bgp| agt| hub| ntk| anz| mqm| efa| wih| nqm| bhs| mdk| hcd| hkc| chg| qps| dmq|