Oradour-sur-Glane massacre

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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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