Massacre at Oradour, France, 1944
coming to grips with terror
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Contributions
- Sices, David. - Contributor
- Atkinson, James B., 1934- - Contributor
Publication
2005 - Northern Illinois University Press, DeKalb, Illinois
Language
English
Word Count
67,250 words, Guess
Page Count
269 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3295086M
- ISBN-100875806015
- OCLC Control Number56010992
- OCLC Control Numbermassacreatoradou0000fouc
- Library of Congress Control Number2004016971
and 2 more
- LibraryThing8133480
- Goodreads1074442
Classifications
- DDC940.54/05/0944662
- LCCD804.G3 F6813 2005
Description
"Near the end of World War II, four days after Allied armies landed at Normandy, a unit of Waffen SS troops en route to the front surrounded the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane and, without warning, systematically massacred its citizens. The Nazi soldiers herded women and children into the village church, machined-gunned them, and set the church on fire while some were still alive. The men were taken to barns in groups, where they were shot. Afterward, the Nazis plundered the village and burned it to the ground. Altogether, more than 640 French men, women, and children died in Oradour that day." "Jean-Jacques Fouche explores the massacre from several points of view - religious or ethnic differences, the background and training of the Nazi soldiers, and German suspicions that villagers sheltered Jewish and Spanish anti-fascist refugees. Probing the most shocking massacre in World War II France, he shows how memory affects our understanding of the past."--Jacket.
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