Posted on 05/30/2024 8:37:00 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Oradour-sur-Glane (France) (AFP) – A French village preserved as a reminder of Nazi cruelty since Waffen-SS troops murdered 643 people there in 1944 is in danger of decay, sparking efforts to preserve the site.
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 by the French Resistance of a high-ranking SS member, German troops rounded up everyone they could find in the village and machine-gunned or burned alive men, women and children, torched or razed buildings and destroyed a church.
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Oradour-sur-Glane is a long way from there. It’s way across France. The SS in that area was trying to reach Normandy.
Why are so many Germans so sanctimonious and smug. I don’t get it.
“Down this road on a summer day in 1944, the soldiers came....”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b4g4ZZNC1E
I have been there are walking all over the village. It was eerie walking among the ruins especially the church. The bullet holes can be seen everywhere. Cars, bicycles and other items still where they were on that fateful day. I toured the site with one of my best friends. He is a French soldier I met in Kosovo. His narration of the events really brought forth the horror of that day for this once beautiful village. The new village was built just next to the original site.
Wow.
Who was the SS guy that was killed?
We would have shot our own officers if they ordered such a thing.
It would be worthy of an effort to keep it from rotting away. Just keep it maintained, no weeds and moss and vines taking over, stabilizing collapsing roofs. Just a little effort would go a long way there.
Unfortunately the money to do so must be sent to the heirs of the SS who still wear their emblems, and the country is filled work moslems who keep Mein Kampf a best seller.
His name was Waffen SS Sturmbannfuhrer Helmut Kämpfe.
Generally that’s the difference with our soldiers and Europeans.
Right. The 1st SS Panzer Division (”Das Reich”) was held in reserve to respond to an attack on the coast, regardless of where on the coast it occurred. They were dispersed back a couple hundred miles to avoid air attacks. They had a train with flat cars and locomotives ready to transport them to Normandy. The French Resistance, on orders from Allied Command who were reading Enigma intercepts and knew of the plans, had infiltrated the railyard and sabotaged the trains after the landings. Along the route, rail lines were blown up. They had to make the journey, that should have taken a day by train, by road, foraging for fuel and under sniper fire the entire way.
Several massacres occurred before they got to Normandy, too late to prevent the landings from succeeding.
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“Who was the SS guy that was killed?”
Helmut Kämpfe was a highly decorated commander in the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich. He was burned alive in front of an audience.
wy69
Wow
Send the bill to Ursula Von der crazy and Klaus Schwab and Berlin. Btw, did the complete coward in charge of this survive the war and get sent to Nuremberg?
Interestingly, it looks like the guy who ordered the atrocity was killed a few weeks later. But his own commander heard his explanation of the murderers and sent up criminal charges against him, and the overall commander approved them, but he was killed before getting arrested.
I have too. The place is completely impassable by military forces, you know. Except for that time in 1871. And the one in 1914. Oh, and 1940. And 1944...
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