Word: oradour
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...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...