Heinz Lammerding 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-
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 642 civilians, including non-combatant men, women, and children, wer
Heinz Lammerding
…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. After the war, Lammerding was convicted in absentia for having ordered the murder of approximately 750 French civilians, but remained…
Oradour sur Glane Hardware 1342
Sequence of events during the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre on 10 June 1944
Memorial
"Watches. Some have been stopped by the heat of the fires. They mark the last hour of these men: 16:00–17:00."