Word: glane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...following day, in reprisal for the kidnaping of an SS officer by the French underground, a heavily armed contingent from the Reich division rounded up all the inhabitants of the peaceful village of Oradour-sur-Glane. Old people were routed from bed and children from the schoolhouse, where their teacher had just scrawled on the blackboard: "I make a resolution never to harm others." In the main square, German machine-gunners methodically mowed down 200 men, poured gunpowder onto the pile of bodies and set it afire; only five escaped...