The mystery of the tiny French village exterminated by the Nazis
The mystery of the tiny French village exterminated by the Nazis Oradour-sur-Glane was flattened by the Nazis in 1944; its inhabitants massacred. With help from survivors, a new book unravels the atrocity The silent village: Oradour-sur-Glane On the morning of June 10, 1944, the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane was – like the rest of France – hopeful. It was just days after the Allies had successfully stormed the beaches of Normandy – D-Day on June 6 – following four years under the Nazi occupation and collaborationist regime of Vichy France. “Word had been coming in all week ab...
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