The life and death of a village in France – Oradour-sur-Glane - innocent French villagers rounded up, shot or burned alive to crush resistance.
For centuries, what made the medieval village of Oradour-sur-Glane special was its succulent freshwater crayfish. A delicacy for lovers of good cuisine, they could be found in the clear, sparkling waters of the River Glane as it ran through the wide pastures of Haute Vienne in the Limousin region in south-central France.
This was a peaceful, pastoral village whose very name, Oradour, meant 'a place of prayer' in the local Occitan patois.
Until one sunny Saturday afternoon on 10 June 1944 when a regiment from the 'Das Reich' panzer division of the Waffen-SS surrounded it and, in scenes of unimaginable horror, ripped it and its inhabitants apart, leaving nothing but smoking ruins with whole generations wiped out.
German troops, members of the SS Division 'Das Reich', who took part in the slaughters at Oradour-sur-Glane and Tulles, France
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