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On 10 June 1944, four days after D-Day, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in Nazi-occupied France was destroyed when 643 civilians, including non-combatant men, women, and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company as collective punishment for Resistance activity in the area including the capture and subsequent execution of a close friend of Waffen-SS ...
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Before World War II, Oradour-sur-Glane was a quiet, rural community. The original village was destroyed on 10 June 1944, four days after D-Day, when 643 of its inhabitants, including 247 children, were massacred by a company of troops belonging to the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich, a Waffen-SS unit of the military forces of Nazi Germany in World War II.
The Centre de la 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 the Waffen-SS "Das Reich" and to act as a memorial for coming generations.
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Oradour-sur-Glane massacre: 10 June 1944: Oradour-sur-Glane: 642 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich murder of French civilians by German troops (SS Das Reich) Graignes massacre: 11 June 1944: Graignes, Manche: 61 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division
On June 16th, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins blasted off on a four-day, first-of-its-kind mission to the moon. The journey, which was funded by NASA through its ...
Heinz Lammerding (27 August 1905 – 13 January 1971) was a German SS officer convicted of war crimes during the Nazi era.During World War II, he commanded the SS Panzer Division Das Reich that perpetrated the Tulle and the Oradour-sur-Glane massacres in occupied France.