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Introduction
In a Ruined State: the story of Oradour
How to get there and places to stay
Picture Gallery
Appendices
Bibliography
Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
Links to other sites
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This website describes the background and events leading up to the
attack upon the martyr town of Oradour-sur-Glane in the
Haute-Vienne Department of France, on Saturday the 10th of June
1944. This atrocity was carried out by soldiers of the Der Führer
Regiment of the 2nd Waffen-SS Panzer Division Das Reich. On that day
they killed a total of 642 men, women and children without giving
any reasons for their actions and to this day there is no
universally accepted explanation for the massacre. The narrative
In a Ruined State, gives a full description of what happened on
the 10th June 1944 and reviews all the current explanations offered by
different authors for the destruction of the town. In addition there are over 200
photographs in the Picture Gallery and supporting data in the
Appendices, including advice on both
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Contact the author Michael Williams at ...
michael@oradour.info
(regrettably, I will be unavailable from the beginning of September to
mid-November 2010) |
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Oradour Church
(main site for the killing
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Memorial
in Oradour cemetery to the
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The car of Doctor
Desourteaux on the
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Note 1: Oradour-sur-Glane is also sometimes
spelled as, Oradour sur Glane (without the hyphens) and is often referred to
as just Oradour: see
The Oradours of France. Note 2: The 10th June 1944 was also the date for other killings by the German Waffen-SS in WWII: see The 10th of June as a date in WWII history. Note 3: All spelling and date formatting on this website follows the British English conventions: see Dates, commonly misspelled words & accents. Note 4: The Favicon for this website, which is displayed in the address bar of your web browser, shows the French cross of Lorraine superimposed on a standard French flag. Note 5: All unvisited links are shown in Blue and change colour to Purple when visited. Note 6: Site optimised for a 1024 x 768 screen, with text size set to Medium in the View menu of Internet Explorer. Note 7: There are no cookies or spyware of any kind at all on this website. This is the Home Page for: Oradour-sur-Glane 10th June 1944 and it was last updated on: Tuesday, 31 August 2010 Please report any broken links or errors of any kind to: michael@oradour.info © Michael Williams ... Friday 10th March 2000 |
