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Oradour
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Author : Philip Beck
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2004-09-19
Oradour written by Philip Beck and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-19 with History categories.
This WWII pictorial history illustrates a horrifying episode of destruction in Nazi-occupied France. In June of 1944, the Second SS Panzer Division Das Reich was stationed in Southern France until it was called north to help stop the Allied advance. On its way toward Normandy, Das Reich destroyed the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane and massacred its population. The brutal event ranks as one of the most notorious atrocities of the Second World War. While the scars left behind will never fully heal, many believe they should remain as a lesson to future generations. Though a new village was built nearby, President Charles de Gaulle ordered the ruins of Oradour to be preserved as a memorial to the victims. This fully illustrated volume recounts the history and legacy Oradour’s destruction, complete with photographs of the ruins throughout
One Day In Oradour
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Author : Helen Watts
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2013-05-09
One Day In Oradour written by Helen Watts and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-09 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
On a hot summer afternoon in 1944, SS troops wiped out an entire French village. 644 men, women and children died that day. Just one child survived. This book tells the story of what happened in Oradour, and imagines what drove both the SS officer who ordered the massacre, and the seven-year-old boy who escaped it. Powerful, moving and almost unbearably tense, this book weaves the truth about what happened to the people in Oradour into a powerful fictional story centred on two characters: the plucky, inspirational seven-year-old Alfred Fournier, refugee and resident of Oradour, and the hot-headed, power-hungry SS commander who shattered his world and changed his life for ever, Major Gustav Dietrich. As their two worlds collide, we gain a fascinating insight into the extremes and contradictions of human behaviour and emotion. With a twist in the tale, this is a story which leaves the reader surprised, inspired and profoundly moved.
Martyred Village
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Author : Sarah Bennett Farmer
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2000-06-15
Martyred Village written by Sarah Bennett Farmer and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-06-15 with History categories.
A full-scale study of the destruction of Oradour and its remembrance over the half century since the war. Farmer investigates the prominence of the massacre in French understanding of the national experience under German domination.
Oradour
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Author : Robin Mackness
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-03-30
Oradour written by Robin Mackness and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-30 with History categories.
A True and Wholly Engrossing Tale of High Finance and Treachery in Which the Secret of a Wartime Tragedy is Revealed Through a Contemporary Drama. On 10th June 1944, four days after the Allied invasion of Normandy, the inhabitants of a remote village in South West France were rounded up by a company of SS soldiers and all but a handful were shot or burnt to death - 642 in total. The atrocity and its particularly disturbing details have never been adequately explained until now. In 1982 Robin Mackness met the one man left alive who held the knowledge which made terrible sense of the massacre. Five further years of thorough investigations convinced the author that he had discovered the true secret of Oradour. It cost him twenty-one months in prison and much else besides.
Silent Village
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Author : Robert Pike
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2021-04-30
Silent Village written by Robert Pike and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-30 with History categories.
'Based on eye-witness accounts, Robert Pike's moving book vividly depicts the lives of the villagers who were caught up in the tragedy of Oradour-sur-Glane and brings their experiences to our attention for the first time.' - Hanna Diamond, author of Fleeing Hitler On 10 June 1944, four days after Allied forces landed in Normandy, the picturesque village of Oradour-sur-Glane in the rural heart of France was destroyed by an armoured SS Panzer division. Six hundred and forty-three men, women and children were murdered in the nation's worst wartime atrocity. Today, Oradour is remembered as a 'martyred village' and its ruins are preserved, but the stories of its inhabitants lie buried under the rubble of the intervening decades. Silent Village gathers the powerful testimonies of survivors in the first account of Oradour as it was both before the tragedy and in its aftermath. A lost way of life is vividly recollected in this unique insight into the traditions, loves and rivalries of a typical village in occupied France. Why this peaceful community was chosen for extermination has remained a mystery. Putting aside contemporary hearsay, Nazi rhetoric and revisionist theories, in this updated third edition Robert Pike returns to the archival evidence to narrate the tragedy as it truly happened – and give voice to the anguish of those left behind.
Massacre At Oradour France 1944
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Author : Jean-Jacques Fouché
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Massacre At Oradour France 1944 written by Jean-Jacques Fouché and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
Near the end of World War II, four days after Allied armies landed at Normandy, a unit of Waffen SS troops en route to that front surrounded the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane and, without warning, systematically massacred its citizens. The Nazi soldiers herded women and children into the village church, machine-gunned them, and set the church on fire while some were still alive. The men were taken to barns in groups, where they were shot. Afterward, the Nazis plundered the village and burned it to the ground. Altogether, more than 640 men, women, and children died in Oradour that day. Jean-Jacques Fouché explores the massacre from several points of view--religious or ethnic differences, the background and training of the Nazi soldiers, and German suspicions that villagers sheltered Jewish and Spanish anti-fascist refugees. Probing the most shocking massacre in World War II France, he shows how memory affects our understanding of the past.
Oradour
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Author : Philip Beck
language : en
Publisher: Leo Cooper Books
Release Date : 1979
Oradour written by Philip Beck and has been published by Leo Cooper Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with History categories.
Oradour Sur Glane
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Author : Robert Hébras
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Oradour Sur Glane written by Robert Hébras and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with categories.
Massacre At Oradour
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Author : Robin Mackness
language : en
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Release Date : 1988
Massacre At Oradour written by Robin Mackness and has been published by Random House (NY) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with History categories.
On June 10, 1944 the Nazis murdered most of the 700 inhabitants of Oradour, France. In 1982, the author did a colleague a favor that went awry, and spent 22 months in a French prison. Now after researching, he feels he's found the secret behind the massacre.
Oradour The Final Verdict
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Author : Douglas W. Hawes
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2007-04-11
Oradour The Final Verdict written by Douglas W. Hawes and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-11 with History categories.
Relying on multiple eye witness accounts and thorough research in French, American and Rsistance archives, the author describes in Part I, hour by hour, the massacre on June 10, 1944, by the Waffen-SS Division Das Reich, of 642 men, women and children in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane and the destruction of the village.. Who ordered the massacre? Why ? The book puts the tragedy in the context of the D-Day Landing and the period that precedes it. Part II is devoted to the conduct of the trial nearly nine years later. Of the 21 accused, only 7 were Germans. The others, all French/Alsatians, had mostly been forcibly inducted into the SS. None were officers. Were the Alsatians victims or murderers? And why were there no officers in the courtroom?