Oradour Sur Glane Mass Murder, Massacre, The Martyr Village and the Saddest Day of my Life. скачать в хорошем качестве

Oradour Sur Glane Mass Murder, Massacre, The Martyr Village and the Saddest Day of my Life.

Today we give you a special episode that was filmed during our visit to Oradur-Sur-Glane, where shortly afterwards I received the sad news of my fathers passing, which made the visit more memorable and poignant. Before the war, Oradour-sur-Glane was a quiet, rural community in central France. In 1944, the village was left in ruins after German Waffen-SS troops massacred 642 men, women, and children before burning the village to the ground. Today, tourists can visit the old town of Oradour where crumbling walls, cars, and other household items have been left untouched for the last 74 years. The ruins of this village serve as a reminder of Nazi atrocities suffered by not only the French but also other civilian populations who came face-to-face with Nazi oppression. The group responsible for the heinous crimes committed at Oradour was the Der Führer regiment, a branch of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich. Das Reich arrived in France as a reserve unit in January 1944 after spending two years on the Eastern Front, where they engaged in combat and were responsible for putting down Soviet partisan resistance. Das Reich was under the command of SS-Obergruppenführer (Major General) Heinz Bernhard Lammerding. During his time on the Eastern Front, Lammerding ordered several retaliations against Soviet citizens for real or perceived partisan actions. These retaliations involved the murder of tens of thousands of Soviet civilians along with the torching of numerous villages. Following the June 6 Allied invasion in Normandy, Das Reich was assigned a new mission to support German forces fighting in northern France. The Division also received orders to put down any maquis (guerilla bands of French Resistance fighters) while simultaneously intimidating the population and reasserting German control over central and southern France. Once orders were received, the Division began to move north towards Normandy. On the morning of June 10, 1944, only four days after D-Day, the citizens of Oradour woke to what they assumed would be another normal day. During the war, Oradour had not seen much action and townspeople saw few Germans passing through the city. Around 2 p.m., under the command of SS-Sturmbannführer (Major) Adolf Diekmann, somewhere between 120 and 200 soldiers of the Panzer regiment Der Führer encircled the town blocking all entrances and exits. The town crier was sent to relay the message that all citizens, including the sick and elderly, were to report to the town market center. Armored cars gathered citizens who were out working in the fields and within an hour the Germans had rounded up every villager they could find in the market center. Most citizens were at first unconcerned, believing the Germans had arrived for a routine identification check. It was not long before the citizens realized that nothing about the exercise was routine. First, SS troops separated the men from the women and children. An officer announced to the men that he knew of hidden weapons and ammunition supplies, and that whoever was hiding them must step forward immediately. This charge was unsubstantiated, as no one in Oradour was known to have taken part in resistance activity. When nothing came of the demand for arms, the 197 men were divided into groups and forced into six separate barns located throughout the village. When a signal was given, the SS men opened fire with machine guns, murdering the men lined up before them. There were 240 women and 205 children that were forced into the village church. Once locked inside, the troops first threw in grenades, injuring some while suffocating others with smoke. Panic ensued within, and the SS then set fire to the building while shooting anyone who attempted to escape. After setting fire to the church, the Germans searched for and killed anyone left hiding in the village and continued on by burning the rest of Oradour to the ground. Only seven people survived the massacre – five men who were protected by fallen bodies, a woman who had escaped through a window of the church, and a child who had managed to escape before the Der Führer regiment began rounding up the townspeople. Subscribe here    / @abroadyorkshire   Email here abroadyorkshire@gmail.com Please help support the channel Buy me a coffee / Buy me a Guinness and I will happily add you to the credits or give you a special mention in the vlog. https://buymeacoffee.com/abroadyorkshire #oradour #sur #glane #martyr #village #Nazi #massacre