On my holiday I visited Oradour-sur-Glane - a French village in Limousin area pillaged by the SS. They killed 642 of its inhabitants, including women and children.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oradour-sur-Glane[/url]
Now it's walled off and you can walk around in the town, pretty much as it was back then, minus the collapsed roofs.
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Really great find
This is one place I'd like to visit before I die. Awesome.
[QUOTE=RainBD7;41756802]This is one place I'd like to visit before I die. Awesome.[/QUOTE]
It's definitely worth seeing. Right now, there aren't too many people going there, but a lot of these places become Disneyland after a while - and when that happens, not only does the experience diminish but also the things you can see and go to.
Hey, I live about 50 miles from this place, have already visited it .. holy shit it is creepy. I got a really weird feeling there, defo a place to visit.
The story goes :
After the french resistance took a german officer hostage, the German army rounded up all the townspeople, forced them into the village church, and threw in incendiary grenades. Burning them all (women, children as well) to death.
After the war, Charles de Gaulle (The french president) ordered that it remain exactly as it was, in memorial to those who died in the french resistance.
Fantastic photos.
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