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Oradour-sur-Glane was a French farm town the Nazi SS troops destroyed. They shot the men, placed a time bomb in the center of the church, locked some 800 women and children in the church to pray and wait for death. Only eight survived...
...just after liberation. Like plasma in a wounded body, the increase in coal is making itself felt in chemicals, metals, textiles and other basic industries. Railways now carry 65% of their prewar tonnage. The merchant marine (partly salvaged) is halfway back. A symbol is the rebuilding of Oradour-sur-Glane, the Lidice of France. Once again, amid the rubble marked simply "REMEMBER," the little town has its mairie, school, post office, shoemaker and bakery...
...afternoon last week trucks loaded with troops of a Waffen SS (armed elite guard) unit drove up to the farm village of Oradour-sur-Glane, in central France. In a few moments the town crier made the rounds, ordered everyone to assemble at the fair grounds...
...Germans stayed three days finishing up, throwing the scorched bodies into a ditch, burning everything that stood. Then, on June 13, the Führer Regiment of the Reich Division left Oradour-sur-Glane...
...Germans were not quite finished; there was a last, ironic twist of the screw. Reported the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung: German officials were horrified, too. The elimination of Oradour-sur-Glane was a ghastly mistake -it was really intended for Oradour-sur-Vayres, 15 miles away. Some Germans had been killed there in a Maquis attack...