Oradour-sur-Glane - The car of Doctor Desourteaux (a Peugeot model 202) at the French village, scene of a 1944 nazi massacre


Oradour-sur-Glane was a village in the Limousin région of France that was destroyed on 10 June 1944, when 642 of its inhabitants — men, women and children — were murdered by a German Waffen-SS company. Today it is preserved as it was left as a permanent memorial.


Size: 5200px × 3516px
Location: Oradour-sur-Glane, Limousin, France
Photo credit: © Tony Kwan / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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