Oradour-sur-Glane
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Oradour-sur-Glane is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, west central France, as well as the name of the main village within the commune. It had a population of 2,477 as of 2
Oradour-sur-Glane Town Hall
Details of rails and catenary of the tramway.
Post office
Village martyr d'Oradour sur Glane 10
Adolf Diekmann
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Adolf Rudolf Reinhold Diekmann was a Nazi officer and war criminal in the Waffen SS during World War II who orchestrated the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre in France on 10 June 1944. Under Diekmann's comm
Oradour-sur-Glane
…Reich, a Waffen-SS unit of the military forces of Nazi Germany. There were only 10 survivors, who escaped by pretending to be dead. SS Sturmbannführer Adolf Diekmann, the commanding officer of the Der Führer regiment of the Das Reich division, had wanted to destroy another French town, Oradour-sur-Vayres, whose…
Diekmann's grave in La Cambe German war cemetery