Oradour-sur-GLANE?

Question

reply to Brainstorm//so you were there you seem to have the name of the regiment and why they were there/your info must be different to mine there were 8 women raped and men could not save themselves being shot by hiding under dead bodies they weren't quick enough//However I don't wish to know what these savages did i fought these bastards in the front line for 2 years i am only interested to know if any of the scum were still enjoying their life they deprived the people of that village

Answer 1

In answer to Ollie, Oradour sur Glane was a small French village whose population was entirely murdered (shot, burned alive, thrown alive in wells, etc) by the SS corps Das Reich on the 10th June 44 during WWII. There was one single survivor. All the others (642 people), men, women, children were murdered horribly.
The village was never rebuilt and the ruins are being kept as a memorial. A new village was built in another place.

Edit : To Chariotmender, I do know my history. The testimony came not from some communist Spaniards coming from Russia who wanted revenge as your link pretends, but from a woman called Marguerite Rouffanche who lived in that village. She lost her husband, her son, her two daughters, and her seven years old grand son that day. She was the only survivor of the village and her testimony is the only live witnessing we have. The rest of the story was guessed by the state of the bodies found where the SS had left them.

Answer 2

Read the book by Max Hastings - Das Reich.
I have also been there ,seen the village and the cemetery and have got the guide book which explains in great detail what happened without any sensationalism.
There are several books on the subject if you are really interested and you will discover that there were survivors.

Further research
List of survivors - Armand Senon, Mathieu Borie, Daniel Senon, Yvon Roby, Clement Broussaudier, Marcel Darthout, Maurice Beaubreuil, Roger Godfrin, Joseph Beaubreuil, Hubert Desorteaux, Robert Besson, Aime Renaud, Paul Doutre, Martial Machefer, Marguerite Rouffanche.

Marguerite Rouffanche was the sole survivor from the church
Marcel Darthout and and four others survived the shooting in the Laudy barn.

At the trial one german and one alsatian were sentenced to death and seventeen others received long prison sentences.
Some of the other soldiers had been killed in fighting during the rest of the war.

Answer 3

As previously stated to your earlier question, I doubt if many of the Gremans or Alsatians who made up the regiment are still alive. Cabal, you really don't know your history or the facts.

Have a look at the link for an alternate, non victors, view. Some where between the two will lie the truth.

http://www.dasreich.ca/ger_oradour.html

Answer 4

Yes there were survivors Brainstorm they were people working the fields and others away for other reasons//i have never been there and have no wish to//i saw Belsen and that was not out of choice you never forget the look on their faces when they realised you were their friends and they were free from the savages

Answer 5

Hi.thats is really shocking information.Which war are you refering to.