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Oradour-Sur Glene

July 05, 2016  •  Leave a Comment

Oradour-sur-Glane
 

On 10 June 1944, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in then Nazi-occupied France was destroyed,
 

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when 642 of its inhabitants, including women and children, were massacred by a Nazi Waffen-SS company.
 

A new village was built nearby after the war, but French president Charles de Gaulle ordered the original maintained as a permanent memorial and museum.
 


 

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