Oradour-sur-Glane is a town and commune in the Haute-Vienne département, Limousin région of west-central France. The original village was destroyed on June 10, 1944, when 642 of its inhabitants were murdered by a German Waffen-SS company.
"The Company had encountered resistance in Oradour, the bodies of executed German soldiers were found. It then occupied the village and immediately conducted an intensive search of the houses. Unfortunately this failed to turn up Kämpfe, however large quantities of weapons and ammunition were found. Therefore all the men of the village were shot, who were surely Maquisards.
The women and children were locked up in the church while all this was going on. Then the village was set on fire, as a result of which the ammunition that was stored in almost every house went up. The burning of the village resulted in fire spreading to the church, where ammunition had also been hidden in the roof. The church burned down very rapidly and the women and children lost their lives.”
4 septembre 2013 - le Président de la République François Hollande se rend à Oradour-sur-Glane avec le Président de la République fédérale d’Allemagne Joachim Gauck.
"Vous êtes la dignité de l’Allemagne d’aujourd’hui, capable de regarder en face la barbarie nazie d’hier. Aujourd’hui, votre visite confirme que l’amitié entre nos deux pays est un défi à l’histoire et un exemple pour le monde entier. Et sa force s’illustre en cet instant même à Oradour-sur-Glane.
Le massacre d’Oradour-sur-Glane(Wikipedia)
A Oradour-sur-Glane, mémoires vives franco-allemandes Le Monde 4.09.2013
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