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Sun-14-07-2013, 15:24 PM
This is a must see if you ever need reminding how lucky you are.
Place: Centre de la mémoire d'Oradour.
Location: Oradour-sur-Glane Haute-Vienne.
Open: 7 days 09:00-17:00 1st Feb-15Dec.
Cost: €5.20-€7.80
Website: https://www.oradour.org
On 10 June 1944 the German SS surrounded the village, all the women and children were locked in the church while the village was looted and the men were shot. After the soldiers had finished killing the men, they proceeded to the church and placed an incendiary device there. After it was ignited, women and children tried to escape through the doors and windows of the church, but they were met with machine-gun fire and forced back into the flames.
In total 190 Men, 247 women, and 205 children died in the carnage.
After the war, General Charles de Gaulle decided the village would never be rebuilt, but would remain a memorial to the cruelty of the Nazi occupation. In 1999 French president Jacques Chirac dedicated a memorial museum, the Centre de la mémoire d'Oradour.
This is not a theme park and the village is in the same condition it was left in after the massacre, yes you can see some things have been place in some locations. But as you wonder around the village looking at the bullet holes in the walls, and you notice the eerie sound as visitors start to talk in a whisper you will feel a tear in your eye just wanting to come out.
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Place: Centre de la mémoire d'Oradour.
Location: Oradour-sur-Glane Haute-Vienne.
Open: 7 days 09:00-17:00 1st Feb-15Dec.
Cost: €5.20-€7.80
Website: https://www.oradour.org
On 10 June 1944 the German SS surrounded the village, all the women and children were locked in the church while the village was looted and the men were shot. After the soldiers had finished killing the men, they proceeded to the church and placed an incendiary device there. After it was ignited, women and children tried to escape through the doors and windows of the church, but they were met with machine-gun fire and forced back into the flames.
In total 190 Men, 247 women, and 205 children died in the carnage.
After the war, General Charles de Gaulle decided the village would never be rebuilt, but would remain a memorial to the cruelty of the Nazi occupation. In 1999 French president Jacques Chirac dedicated a memorial museum, the Centre de la mémoire d'Oradour.
This is not a theme park and the village is in the same condition it was left in after the massacre, yes you can see some things have been place in some locations. But as you wonder around the village looking at the bullet holes in the walls, and you notice the eerie sound as visitors start to talk in a whisper you will feel a tear in your eye just wanting to come out.
