"The Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane" Topic

An American lawyer finds new evidence about one of World War II's most notorious war crimes, seven decades after D-Day.

"BY Shane Harris Shane Harris is a senior staff writer at Foreign Policy, covering intelligence and cyber security. He is the author of The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State, which chronicles the creation of a vast national security apparatus and the rise of surveillance in America. The Watchers won the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the Economist named it one of the best books of 2010. Shane is the winner of the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense. He has four times been named a finalist for the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists, which honor the best journalists in America under the age of 35. Prior to joining Foreign Policy, he was the senior writer for The Washingtonian and a staff correspondent at National Journal…"
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Amicalement
Armand

There is never an excuse to execute civilians not envolved in combat.

Yet, there was a reason that Oradour was choosen for this treatment. The village was a center of resistance activity directed towards 2nd SS "Das Reich" on their march up from Southern France towards Normandy. There were 3 OSS agents operating with resistance forces from the village.

This event is covered very well in the book "Das Reich" by Max Hastings.

The SS officer in charge of this had just had his brother in law (another SS officer) killed in a resistance ambush near the village. 2nd SS had been under constant ambush for almost 2 weeks. The units hit by French resistance were usually communication, supply, medical and HQ units. The officer in charge was later killed fighting in Normandy.

After this massacre, resistance units were told to avoid attacks upon 2nd SS units.

Thanks for share my friend.
Quite interesting.

Amicalement
Armand

Alas, the site requires registration.

What is the "new evidence" to which it refers?

I read that book. It was a pretty gruesome massacre. Did the book say that they may have had the wrong village? There was one with the same/similar name down the road.

There is never an excuse to execute civilians not envolved in combat.

Agreed …