I've been looking through these pics and although they are quite disturbing, I am quite fascinated with the way they capture the village in a 'frozen in time' type of way. Thought I'd share the link with the forum. Cheers: Picture Gallery for Oradour-sur-Glane 10 June 1944
I know that site well, it is indeed an excellent place & I love the way it's laid out. Right up there with 'Third Reich in Ruins' as a well-presented and concise story. (Main Page - Oradour-sur-Glane 10 June 1944) What I hadn't seen there before was the pictures of a similar 'memorial town' in Spain relating to the Spanish Civil War: Belchite. Battle of Belchite (1937 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) Cheers, Adam.
Not to worry, we had the Das Reich inside the Falaise pocket, and mangled them until you could not cross the road for bodies in places. Unfortunately many of them got away, I hope that they will have to listen to the screams of women and little children being burned alive for all eternity.....PLEASE! Sapper
Brian, Totally agree with you but ironically most of 3 Kompanie Der Fuhrer Regt who committed the Oradour massacre were frenchmen from the Alsace !! Of course under German command !! The main perpretator Adolf Dieckmann the Abteilung Commander was allowed a soldiers death in Normandy instead of a war criminals hanging , apparently he stood up under heavy fire without cover , helmet etc and got shot in the head, maybe even he realised what he had done !!
