Fly over the haunting ruins of Oradour-sur-Glane, the French village frozen in time after the 1944 massacre by Nazi SS troops—captured in poignant drone footage that reveals rusted cars ...

at 3:01 pm 2 min read Lire en français Comparing the French conquest of Algeria to the Nazi massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane in France seems to have shocked public opinion. The matter has been ...

On February 25 he said on air: "Every year in France, we commemorate what happened in Oradour-sur-Glane -- the massacre of an entire village. But we have committed hundreds of these, in Algeria.

The inns were crowded, and nearly every farmhouse had guests in the little French town of Oradour-sur-Glane, near Limoges. A special distribution of tobacco rations had brought many farmers in to ...

Then, in revenge for the kidnap of an SS commander, the Nazis massacred an entire village of 600 people in Oradour-Sur-Glane. Held in Limoges by the SS, Violette ‘disappeared’. The liberation ...

On 10 June, 1944, a troop of Waffen-SS slaughtered 643 inhabitants of the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in south-west France, before setting it ablaze to erase all trace. An exhibit of victims ...

"It is in this memory, in the ashes of Oradour, that we have to ensure the strength of this reconciliation is reborn," said the French president.

The clouds had gathered over Oradour-sur-Glane on the morning of 10 June 1944, and rain threatened. At la Grange de Boeil, a hamlet nearby, Denise Bardet rose in the farmhouse she shared with her ...

The village of Oradour-sur-Glane was the scene of the worst massacre of civilians carried out by the Nazis in France. The village, northeast of Bordeaux, was almost entirely destroyed on June 10 ...

AFAIK there were no mass murders of German civilians like Oradour. But ethnic cleansing of Germans happened on a grand scale. Add in the mass bombing of German (and Japanese) cities, and see a war ...

On June 10, 1944, Oradour-sur-Glane in German-occupied southern France became the scene of a massacre of civilians that still shocks the nation to this day. Possibly as punishment for the killing ...