0410°E / 45.9280; 1.0410 Oradour-sur-Glane On 10 June 1944, four days after D-Day, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in Nazi-occupied France...
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Glane or Glâne may refer to: Glâne District, a district in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland Glâne (river), a river in Switzerland that crosses part...
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Oradour-sur-Glane (French pronunciation: [ɔʁaduʁ syʁ ɡlan]; Occitan: Orador de Glana) is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department, New Aquitaine, west...
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Glâne (French: [ɡlɑn]; Arpitan: (la) Gllânna [la ˈjɑ̃na] ) is a river in Switzerland that crosses part of the Canton of Fribourg. It is a tributary of...
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Villars-sur-Glâne (French: [vilaʁ syʁ ɡlɑn]; Arpitan: Velârs-sur-Gllânna [vəˈlɑ ʃy ˈjɑ̃na] ) is a municipality in the district of Sarine in the canton...
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Chapèla, locally Tsapala [tsaˈpala] ) is a municipality in the district of Glâne in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. Since 2005, Chapelle (Broye) in...
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Adolf Diekmann (category Oradour-sur-Glane massacre)
officer in the Waffen SS during World War II who orchestrated the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre in France on 10 June 1944. Under Diekmann's command, troops from...
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Glane is a river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It flows into the Ems near Saerbeck. On its course from near Lienen to the west, it assumes several...
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This is a list of mayors of Villars-sur-Glâne, Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. The executive of Villars-sur-Glâne is the municipal council (Conseil communal)...
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June 1944. In total 643 men, women and children were killed in Oradour-sur-Glane by troops from the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich. Adolf Diekmann, the...
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2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich (category Oradour-sur-Glane massacre)
massacres, most notably in the form of the Tulle massacre and the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre on 9 and 10 June 1944. In August 1939 Adolf Hitler placed the Leibstandarte...
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Glanes (French pronunciation: [ɡlan]; Occitan: Glanas) is a commune in the Lot department in south-western France. Communes of the Lot department "Répertoire...
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Glâne District (German: Glânebezirk; French: District de la Glâne; Arpitan: District de la Gllânna [diʃˈtʁi də la ˈjɑ̃na] ) is one of seven districts...
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between Greece and Turkey and the original French village at Oradour-sur-Glane which was destroyed on 10 June 1944 when 642 of its 663 inhabitants were...
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Henri Deglane (redirect from Henri DeGlane)
Henri Deglane (22 June 1902 – 7 July 1975) was a French wrestler. He was an Olympic Champion in Greco-Roman wrestling and AWA World Champion. In May 1931...
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headquartered in Moscow, Russia, it is now headquartered in Villars-sur-Glâne, Switzerland. Eagle Dynamics was founded in 1991 by Nick Grey and Igor Tishin...
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France: Oradour-sur-Glane, in the Haute-Vienne département, destroyed along with almost all of its inhabitants by the Nazis Oradour-sur-Glane massacre Oradour...
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Villars-sur-Glâne railway station (French: Gare de Villars-sur-Glâne, German: Bahnhof Villars-sur-Glâne) is a railway station in the municipality of Villars-sur-Glâne...
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Heinz Lammerding (category Oradour-sur-Glane massacre)
Panzer Division Das Reich that perpetrated the Tulle and the Oradour-sur-Glane massacres in occupied France. After the war, Lammerding was convicted in...
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Arrested decay (section Oradour-sur-Glane, France)
as a symbol of hope for world peace and nuclear disarmament. Oradour-sur-Glane was a village in the Limousin région of France that was destroyed on 10...
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Robert Hébras (category Oradour-sur-Glane massacre)
Waffen-SS Das Reich Panzer Division on 10 June 1944. He was born in Oradour-sur-Glane, the son of Jean, a tramway maintenance official and Marie, a seamstress...
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in Ukraine: Kortelisy (Ukraine), Lidice (Czechoslovakia) & Oradour-sur-Glane (France): Razed Villages". 2012-02-04. Archived from the original on 2012-02-04...
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comprises eleven townlands—Augherskea, Baronstown, Bedfanstown, Drumree, Glane Great, Glane Little, Kilcooly, Knockmark, Merrywell, Mooretown, and Warrenstown...
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men were murdered. The next day, they reached the village of Oradour-sur-Glane where they massacred 642 civilians including 247 children. The II SS Panzer...
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Sylvester Stadler (category Oradour-sur-Glane massacre)
of the SS regiment whose 3rd Company was responsible for the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre. Only 34 years old at the end of the war, he held the rank of SS-Brigadeführer...
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German troops occasionally engaged in massacres such as the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre, in which an entire village was razed and almost every resident...
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Finnish-Canadian rock drummer Glan Valley Railway, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany Glane (disambiguation) Sankt Veit an der Glan This disambiguation page lists articles...
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Centre de la mémoire d'Oradour (category Oradour-sur-Glane massacre)
center of Oradour) has made it its mission to commemorate the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre by the 2nd armoured division of the Waffen-SS "Das Reich" and to...
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crimes including the bombing of Guernica, the massacres of Oradour-sur-glane, Babi Yar, Katyn, Lidice and Sharpeville and the extermination of Jews and...
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phones and belongings. A man named Glane rescues them and takes them to Boston, where he works. While with Glane, Lauren discovers that Martha's parents...
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