The martyr village of Oradour-sur-Glane

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Oradour-sur-Glane (Limousin region in west-central France): the original population was destroyed on 10 June 1944 by a German Waffen-SS company called "das Reich". 642 men, women and children, were massacred with weapons and fire. The ruins of the original village have been maintained as a permanent memorial and museum to express the atrocity of the massacres.

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Location: France
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