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World War II: Six hundred forty-three men, women and children massacred at Oradour-sur-Glane, France.
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Oradour-sur-Glane massacre
642 civilians massacred by a German Waffen-SS company in 1944
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 642 civilians, including non-combatant men, women, and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company. The execution was retribution in the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Oradour-sur-Glane
Commune in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Oradour-sur-Glane is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, west central France, as well as the name of the main village within the commune.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)