Altar inside burnt Church. Oradour-sur-Glane
On June 10th 1944 the Nazi SS ordered the destruction of Oradour-Sur-Glane because they believed someone in the town was passing information to Hitler's enemies. The men of the town were herded together and shot and the women and children imprisoned in the Church and burned. The town was then also burned. Only a tiny number (5?) of the population survived by hiding for many hours until the Nazis left. Only one woman escaped from the Church through one of the windows shown in the photograph, dropping several metres down below the level of the church floor and hiding for over twenty hours in a vegetable patch. The town is now preserved as a memorial and a reminder and horror of war. A new Oradour has been built close to the destroyed town.
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Location: Oradour-Sur-Glane Haute Vienne Limousin France.
Photo credit: © Lesley Pardoe / Alamy / Afripics
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