Oradour-sur-Glane
Details of the
distruction of the village can be found at www.oradour.info/
which describes
the background and events leading up to the destruction of the small
town of Oradour-sur-Glane in the Haute-Vienne Department of France,
on Saturday the 10th of June 1944. The attack was carried out by
soldiers of the Der Führer Regiment of the 2nd Waffen-SS Panzer
Division Das Reich. On that day they killed a total of 642 men, women
and children without giving any reasons for their actions and to this
day there is no universally accepted explanation for the massacre.
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