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[PlayofSparta]

As the 82nd anniversary of this massacre is approaching next month, I think this deserves a thread.

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 (190 men, 247 women and 205 children) were butchery and the town burned to the ground by the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich from the Waffen-SS in World War II.

The French government made the village a memorial, so here are some photos:

Seeing as behaviorist psychological form, the reason for the massacre was the habit that this division and others already had of doing this in Eastern Europe. The movie "Come and See" kinda shows:



Never forget.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

Hadn't heard of this. Apparently they massacred them to terrorize and demoralize the Resistance and its sympathizers around the area, thinking there were Resistance members staying there, but there were none. Terrible.

 

[AJUMP23]

Tragic story.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

We had a few episodes like this in German-occupied Italy between 1943 and 1945.
Some people should learn about these Nazi massacres before throwing the word Nazi at people who didn't do anything remotely of the sort.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

We had a few episodes like this in German-occupied Italy between 1943 and 1945.
Some people should learn about these Nazi massacres before throwing the word Nazi at people who didn't do anything remotely of the sort.

I'm of the opinion that Come And See should be required viewing for highschool students. It's one of my favorite war films but I'm never watching it again due to that last act of the film

 

[Trunx81]

Didn't know about that, thanks op!

Reminds me that we all are descendants of survivors. Our ancestors not only survived both great wars, but also the middle ages, black plague...

 

[EviLore]

Countless instances like this one, mostly on the eastern front. The SS were worse than scum.

 

[The Cockatrice]

A good reminder on how privileged our lives are.

 

[jason10mm]

We had a few episodes like this in German-occupied Italy between 1943 and 1945.
Some people should learn about these Nazi massacres before throwing the word Nazi at people who didn't do anything remotely of the sort.

Exactly. Being called a Nazi is, IMHO, FAR worse than the "n-word'. I'm pretty ok with folks just punching out anyone calling them a nazi, unless of course you tattooed "SS" and a swastika on your face, shaved your head, and are high stepping with your arm out straight, holding a copy of Mein Kampf.

 

[Toots]

The middle sticker reads :
"watches. A few were stopped by the heat of the fires. This show the last hour of the owners, 4pm to 5pm"

Oradour from what i know was very symbolic as a ss massacre because it was completely useless and the nazi had already lost the war. It was just barbarism for the sake of it.

 

[PlayofSparta]

Countless instances like this one, mostly on the eastern front. The SS were worse than scum.

The Wehrmacht was no better.

War crimes of the Wehrmacht - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

They should be as a whole be classified as a criminal entity, but due to the incoming Cold War, only the high command suffered any punishment.

 

[apocaliptic]

My father never saw his father and his two older brothers. His mother was pregnant with him when most of his family was executed. Only my grandmother and his sister were spared.