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Massacre At Oradour: France, 1944; Coming To Grips With Terror

Near the end of World War II, four days after Allied armies landed at Normandy, a unit of Waffen SS en route to the front surrounded the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane and, without warning, massacred its citizens. In an effort to come to grips with this tragedy, Jean-Jacques Fouche explores the massacre from several points of.

Important places

Oradour-sur-Glane (12)

Regions

Haute-Vienne (18)

Countries

France (7,260)

Other geographical areas

Nouvelle-Aquitaine (223)