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The town of Oradour-sur-Glane...

history · 10 June 1944 · 80 years ago

The town of Oradour-sur-Glane in central France was destroyed. Nearly all of its 652 inhabitants were killed by troops of the SS Division Das Reich; only 10 survived the massacre with fire and machine gunning. 

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