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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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    9280°N 1.0410°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...
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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...
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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...
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  • inhabitants by the Nazis Oradour-sur-Glane massacre Oradour, Cantal Oradour, Charente Oradour-Fanais, in the Charente département Oradour-Saint-Genest, in the...
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    Robert Hébras (category Oradour-sur-Glane massacre)
    survive the massacre of Oradour by Nazi Germany's Waffen-SS Das Reich Panzer Division on 10 June 1944. He was born in Oradour-sur-Glane, the son of Jean, a...
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    carried out the Oradour massacre in occupied France on 10 June 1944. In total 643 men, women and children were killed in Oradour-sur-Glane by troops from...
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  • Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony, Germany a river in Oradour-sur-Glane (commune), Haute-Vienne, France Glane (Ems), a river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany...
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    serve 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...
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    Heinz Lammerding (category Oradour-sur-Glane massacre)
    the SS Panzer Division Das Reich that perpetrated the Tulle and the Oradour-sur-Glane massacres in occupied France. After the war, Lammerding was convicted...
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    exchange 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...
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    where 99 men were murdered. The next day, they reached the village of Oradour-sur-Glane where they massacred 642 civilians including 247 children. The II...
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  • department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in west-central France. The Oradour-sur-Glane massacre occurred based on erroneous intelligence indicating that...
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    historical crimes including the bombing of Guernica, the massacres of Oradour-sur-glane, Babi Yar, Katyn, Lidice and Sharpeville and the extermination of...
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  • Heinz Barth (category Oradour-sur-Glane massacre)
    criminal who was responsible for the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre of 1944. Barth was the only SS officer involved in the Oradour massacre to have been judged....
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    Centre de la mémoire d'Oradour (category Oradour-sur-Glane massacre)
    mémoire d'Oradour (the memorial center of Oradour) has made it its mission to commemorate the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre by the 2nd armoured division of...
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  • for distributing a pamphlet and videocassette that questioned the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre, in which many French villagers were killed. He was sentenced...
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    Sylvester Stadler (category Oradour-sur-Glane massacre)
    commander 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...
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    herded into a barn, which was then set alight, killing all inside Oradour-sur-Glane massacre Massacre of Kalavryta Unrestricted submarine warfare against...
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    Malgré-nous (category Oradour-sur-Glane massacre)
    French Forces. Thirteen Malgré-nous were involved in the massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane together with one genuine volunteer from Alsace. In a trial in Bordeaux...
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  • Panzergrenadier Division Götz von Berlichingen (Lieb, 2007). In contrast to Oradour-sur-Glane, the village was rebuilt after the war to its pre-war state (Delahousse...
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  • to Salon.com, the church-burning scene in the film is based on the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre committed by German forces in 1944, though "[there] is no...
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  • committed after the Italian armistice. Oradour-sur-Glane massacre: On 10 June 1944, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in then Nazi occupied...
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    of Oradour-sur-Glane at the height of the Battle of Normandy. On 10 June 1944, a company of the 2nd SS Panzer Division, entered Oradour-sur-Glane, and...
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    depopulated due to being too remote and was a ghost town by 1930. Oradour-sur-Glane was destroyed by a Waffen-SS battalion during World War II and its...
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    elected in 2015. Château de Montbrun Ruins of Oradour-sur-Glane Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche Maisonnais-sur-Tardoire Mortemart Limousin cows near Saint-Laurent-les-Églises...
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    an event of great importance occurred there such as the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in France. Many countries use 'ancient monument' or similar terms...
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    Don Ubaldo Marchioni. Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre Lidice Kľak Oradour-sur-Glane massacre Ochota massacre Khatyn massacre Italian Campaign (World War...
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  • 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich was involved in the massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane. At the beginning of 1944, after suffering heavy losses on the Eastern...
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    War II in Ukraine: Kortelisy (Ukraine), Lidice (Czechoslovakia) & Oradour-sur-Glane (France): Razed Villages". 2012-02-04. Archived from the original...
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