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.
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.
BFL
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?
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...
I thought this was about the Azovs. Oh well, there were other Nazis, I guess.
later
Me too. Reading a book about that right now.
Had an uncle who barely survived those battles.