Monday, 1 October 2007

Oradour sur Glane - 10 June 1944


Was watching the first episode of "The World at War" in repeat this evening. It starts with images from the above mentioned town in France, which lies 12 miles west of Limoges. Oradour was burned four days after D-day in 1944, and 642 of its inhabitants died in a massacre. The ruins of the town have been left as they were at the close of that day. Why the events took place has actually never been cleared up.

A website has been set up to remember the dead of Oradour sur Glane. If you want to see a fragment of the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany in occupied Europe, have a look. The imagery is stark, and can be upsetting.
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5 comments:

  1. Anonymous1 October 2007 at 23:46

    I did go and look but decided not to peruse it today.  I am trying to watch the Ken Burns series on World War II on PBS as I did so enjoy his series on the Civil War.  I read and read accounts of the war and the death camps.  I felt I had to acquaint myself with what had gone on so I would never forget.  And then I kind of left that scene and then I started reading about all the massacres in Russia.  And I was shocked to read in a History of the Jews how many pograms they have endured down through the centuries.  The Holocaust certainly wasn't the first one.  Gerry

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  2. Anonymous2 October 2007 at 00:39

    How can the Iran Pres (I'm a dinner jacket) say with a straight face that none of that happened?   Linda

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  3. Anonymous2 October 2007 at 04:46

    Thank you for the link, Guido.

    be well,
    Dawn
    http://journals.aol.com/princesssaurora/CarpeDiem/

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  4. Anonymous2 October 2007 at 07:21

    How sad

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  5. Anonymous2 October 2007 at 08:38

    I read all about the holocaust when I was in my teens.  There were a lot of books, whith photographs, in the libraries about it both in Glasgow, where I was brought up and here even in the small village where I now live. The atrocities were absolutely mind blowing to a teenager and remain so to this day.  In the intervening years I have also read up on the atrocities visited upon the Russians.  The recent ethnic cleansing in Europe tells me that these things can still carry on happening through a deep rooted bigotry.  It was a wake up call for all of us to watch that happening in this day and age.  There but for the grace of God go you or I.

    I will bookmark your link Guido for when I can spend more time reading it.

    Thanks
    Jeanie

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