massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane

When

10 Jun 1944

Kind

Massacre

Deaths

643

Coordinates

45.93° N, 1.04° E

Description

642 French civilians massacred by a German Waffen-SS company in 1944

1944 mass killing by Nazi German soldiers in France

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, including non-combatant men, women, and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “WWII: Oradour-sur-Glane massacre: 642 men, women and children are killed in France in a reprisal attack by the Waffen-SS”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Eine Einheit der Waffen-SS richtet im südwestfranzösischen Ort Oradour-sur-Glane ein Massaker an: 642 Bewohner, davon 202 Kinder und 241 Frauen kommen dabei um”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “massacre de 643 personnes à Oradour-sur-Glane par les SS”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Массовое убийство в Орадур-сюр-Глан”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page