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Limousin region. Haute Vienne department. Oradour-sur-Glane, the Martyr village. September 1st. During the Second World War, on June 10, 1944, a Nazi SS Division (Das Reich) surrounded th (PAR211253)
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Patrick Zachmann
Magnum Photos
12-08-2003
Limousin region. Haute Vienne department. Oradour-sur-Glane, the Martyr village. September 1st.
During the Second World War, on June 10, 1944, a Nazi SS Division (Das Reich) surrounded the village of Oradour-sur-Glane. They locked up the entire population in the church and then they set fire to the entire village. A total of 642 people were massacred.
The village of Oradour-sur-Glane was never rebuilt, forever standing as a silent monument to Nazi atrocities.
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