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The Oradour-sur-Glane massacre — A village’s annihilation by the Das Reich division, 1944
Four days after the Landings, a company of the SS Das Reich division, moving up toward Normandy, surrounded the village: the men shot in the barns, the women and children burned in the church. De Gaulle decided the ruins would remain as they stood, forever. (Editorial synthesis)
The Oradour-sur-Glane massacre took place on 10 June 1944. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
The Oradour-sur-Glane massacre took place in Oradour-sur-Glane. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
The Oradour-sur-Glane massacre ended in 642 dead — and the village preserved in ruins, a witness to the folly of men. (source: Assemblée nationale)
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