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Oradour-sur-Glane

   Hey guys! Today’s post is about a place I visited recently. It’s a French village, or at least it used to be until it was brutally destroyed by the Nazis in 1944. Its name is Oradour-sur-Glane and it brings bad memories to every French person.    Everything started on the 10 th of July , 1944, when Diekmann’s battalion was passing by the French village and decided to put an end of its existence as well as the one of its inhabitants. Men were taken to barns and sheds, where machine guns had been waiting for them. Women and children were locked in village’s church, where they were killed afterwards. Only two women and a child managed to escape by the window, but shortly after that they were shot. The whole village was burned up. According to the statistics, 642 people were killed that day and only 6 managed to save themselves.    A new village was build close to the old one, but French people decided to save what’s left from Oradour-sur-Glane. Today it still exists as a mem