Oradour-sur-Glane June 2017

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MD

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On 10 June 1944, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in Nazi-occupied France was destroyed, when 642 of its inhabitants, including women and children, were massacred by a Nazi Waffen-SS company.


35684524172_004bcde251_b.jpgcars by matt allen, on Flickr


35013414134_59090c24a1_b.jpgcars2 by matt allen, on Flickr


35853715365_dfed84bdef_b.jpgone by matt allen, on Flickr


35465764160_e09441424f_b.jpgstreet by matt allen, on Flickr


35465774090_f0c01218d4_b.jpggarage by matt allen, on Flickr


35013460334_60e1f18dd4_b.jpgbutchers by matt allen, on Flickr


35853746945_fb6908127f_b.jpgthree by matt allen, on Flickr


35721717331_f1dabbd9ce_b.jpgpost-office by matt allen, on Flickr


35721755421_0177433477_b.jpgstonemasons by matt allen, on Flickr


35721780391_95ee50a04b_b.jpgcafe-2 by matt allen, on Flickr


quite a moving place and well worth a visit
 
Wow that's a bit different and very sad.i suppose you have to be there to get the feeling of the place.i remember I think seeing something about this place on a documentary.might be somewhere else.somewhere I would deffo visit.great post
 
Just had a proper read.quite sobering and very horrific to be honest.
 
Wow you have some very moving images there MD!

That third shot is...well its hard to find the right word to use with the history of the site, but the image is wonderful, the warm rust and its crumpled stance, a place I'd like to visit too.

Thanks for enlightening me!
 
who's that then ?

Yeah Hugh its a very atmospheric place :(

Guy I know (Northantzurbex I believe but not on here much) was there a week or so back & posted some excellent pics on fb.
Looks an interesting place, I have not done any foreign explores.... yet
 
The documentary was probably The World at War eposide 1, which opens with Laurence Olivier (?) doing the narration over sequences around the village. I recal the line something like 'when the soldiers had gone, a community that had existed for a thousand years, was dead'.
 

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