Oradour-sur-Glane, France

Travel Blogs from Oradour-sur-Glane (8)

Empty streets, Oradour Sur Glane, France travel blog
Empty streets
Nov 18, 2006

I will get round to writing up an entry for this but, hey, if you wait for that you'll be waiting for the new millenium.   Here are some photos to pass the time.

A travel blog entry by lucinate
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Massacre, Oradour-Sur-Glane, France travel blog
Massacre
Nov 19, 2006

... that this is more expensive, well not really, because if we had flown to Limoges, we would have hired a car anyway. Oradour-Sur-Glane As this was a Ryanair flight, it meant getting up in the early hours and driving to the airport. Two hours of sleep ...

A travel blog entry by uncle_davros
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Brutal Nazi murder of village just after D-Day, Oradour-sur-Glane, France travel blog
Brutal Nazi murder of village just after D-Day
Sep 5, 2004

Incredible museum and the village was left the day it was found the next day. A couple of days after D-Day, retreating Germans, as revenge against the Resistance, assembled all the men of the village and killed them. The women and children were assembled ...

A travel blog entry by stevelegassick
Oradour-sur-Glane, Oradour-sur-Glane, France travel blog
Oradour-sur-Glane
Jun 15, 2009

Oradour-sur-Glane. On June 10th 1944 two hundred Waffen SS travelling between two quarters committed here an act of terror. They plundered, set fire to the village, and massacred 642 persons including 193 children.

A travel blog entry by tekknochicken