Oradour-sur-Glane massacre
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oradour-sur-glane-massacre-188-10855020
title:
Oradour-sur-Glane massacre
text:
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 643 civilians, including non-combatant men, women, and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company as collective punishment for Resistance activity in the area including the capture and subsequent execution of a close friend of Waffen-SS Sturmbannführer Adolf Diekmann, Sturmbannführer Helmut Kämpfe, who an informant incorrectly claimed had been burned ali
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description:
642 civilians massacred by a German Waffen-SS company in 1944
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oradour-sur-Glane_massacre
date created:
2002-07-18T11:01:41Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T01:59:34Z
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