Oradour-sur-Glane (Oradour-sur-Glane) - Village Museum in France Bashny.Net

The history of this place is very tragic and in memory of those times, the French decided to leave it in its original form. The way it was back in June 1944, immediately after one of the terrible tragedies of the Second World War on the Western Front.

Tenth in June 1944 in the sleepy village of Oradour-sur-Glane (Oradour-sur-Glane), in the south central part of France, became a division of Hitler "Waffen-SS." Within hours, 150 SS troops destroyed all the inhabitants of the village, which was estimated at 642 people. Not spared no one. Accurate explanations for this behavior of the Nazis did not exist. However, there is a version that the Germans were simply confused the name of the village with a consonant and externally similar Oradour-sur-Vayres. There's a prisoner detained the day before a senior German commander. The new settlement Oradour-sur-Glane appeared alongside the old, which had remained intact.