Martyred Village Commemorating the 1944 Massacre at Oradour-Sur-Glane

Name: Martyred Village Commemorating the 1944 Massacre at Oradour-Sur-Glane
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ISBN: 9780520224834

ISBN-10: 0520224833

ISBN-13: 9780520224834

Edition: 1999

Authors: Sarah Farmer

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Among German crimes of the Second World War, the Nazi massacre of 642 men, women, and children at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, is one of the most notorious. On that Saturday afternoon, four days after the Allied landings in Normandy, SS troops encircled the town in the rolling farm country of the Limousin. Soldiers marched the men to nearby barns, lined them up, and shot them. They then locked the women and children in the church, shot them, and set the building and the rest of the town on fire. Residents who had been away for the day returned to a blackened scene of horror, carnage, and devastation. In 1946 the French State expropriated and preserved the entire ruins of Oradour. The…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/15/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 317
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Abbreviations


Preface


Introduction



The Massacre



Framing the Story



Creating the Monument



The Memorial Landscape



The Bordeaux Trial



The New Town


Afterword


Notes


Bibliography


Photo Credits


Index