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France Seeks to Save Nazi Massacre Village from Decay
Breitbart ^ | 05/30/2024 | BREITBART LONDON

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: france; massacre; nazi; oradoursurglane; village
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I have always wanted to explore the Ardennes forest
1 posted on 05/30/2024 8:37:00 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Oradour-sur-Glane is a long way from there. It’s way across France. The SS in that area was trying to reach Normandy.


2 posted on 05/30/2024 8:45:22 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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Why are so many Germans so sanctimonious and smug. I don’t get it.


3 posted on 05/30/2024 8:45:57 AM PDT by Sam Clements
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“Down this road on a summer day in 1944, the soldiers came....”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b4g4ZZNC1E


4 posted on 05/30/2024 8:47:23 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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.


5 posted on 05/30/2024 8:47:28 AM PDT by animal172 (This ain't the country I grew up in.)
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Wow.


6 posted on 05/30/2024 8:48:34 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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Who was the SS guy that was killed?


7 posted on 05/30/2024 8:49:00 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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We would have shot our own officers if they ordered such a thing.


8 posted on 05/30/2024 8:52:27 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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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.


9 posted on 05/30/2024 8:53:36 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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That was the Das Reich 2nd SS Panzer division, heading toward the fighting after D-Day, sabotaged and impeded by various resistance activities along the way.
10 posted on 05/30/2024 8:54:11 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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His name was Waffen SS Sturmbannfuhrer Helmut Kämpfe.


11 posted on 05/30/2024 8:55:03 AM PDT by animal172 (This ain't the country I grew up in.)
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Generally that’s the difference with our soldiers and Europeans.


12 posted on 05/30/2024 8:55:07 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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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.


13 posted on 05/30/2024 8:55:25 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (לעזאזל עם חמאס)
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BFL


14 posted on 05/30/2024 8:58:01 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us )
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To: animal172

TY


15 posted on 05/30/2024 8:58:56 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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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


16 posted on 05/30/2024 9:01:10 AM PDT by whitney69 (yption tunnels)
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Wow


17 posted on 05/30/2024 9:01:39 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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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?


18 posted on 05/30/2024 9:02:25 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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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.


19 posted on 05/30/2024 9:14:19 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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I have always wanted to explore the Ardennes forest

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...

20 posted on 05/30/2024 9:21:36 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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