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Oradour-sur-Glane (Overnight - Limoges)

4/8/2018

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7 April 2018
On 10 June 1944, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in Nazi-occupied France was destroyed, when 642 of its inhabitants, including women and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company.
A new village was built nearby after the war, but French president Charles de Gaulle ordered the original maintained as a permanent memorial and museum.

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Around the village placards explain in French where specific events occurred, or the identities of various residences/businesses/institutions.  These placards explain that 59 men were massacred here, while 6 managed to escape.  
With gas rationing, and also to protect them from 'war', auto owners from around the area stored cars en masse in the village.
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The Catholic Church where the women and children were massacred.
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It became curious to us as to why there were so many sewing machines scattered throughout the village - many in an essentially posed condition.  We couldn't be sure whether these were original to the event, or placed there after the village was developed into a memorial.  Whether they be staged or real, supported in either way, descriptions of them from internet sources suggest a portrayal that the victims were not warriors, but innocents, engaged in trying to live as normal a life as possible during war.
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The village's original cemetery became an enlarged memorial garden to the lost villagers.
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Past Gerri's left shoulder is the new church at the edge of the new village of Oradour-sur-Glane, where about 2,200 people now live.  This sewing machine was amongst personal items placed in a walk-in crypt in the middle of the cemetery.
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Adjacent to the ruined village, the Centre de la mémoire d'Oradour (the memorial center of Oradour) commemorates the crimes of the 2nd armored division of the Waffen-SS "Das Reich" in Oradour-sur-Glane, informs about the crime, and acts as a memorial for coming generations.
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We lodged in Limoges for the evening, before a long day of medieval villages tomorrow.
Limoges-Bénédictins is the main railway station of Limoges.
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