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Massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane

1944 CE · France, Europe · War

Massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane
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On 10 June 1944, four days after D-Day, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in Nazi-occupied France was destroyed when 642 civilians, including non-combatant men, women, and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company.

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