Martin Antonenko
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The massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane
On February 13, 1953, a French military tribunal at Bordeaux...
...convicts 21 former SS soldiers - all members of the 3rd company of the 4th SS Panzergrenadier Regiment "Der Führer" belonging to the 2nd SS Panzer Division "Das Reich"...:
Two death sentences are pronounced, all other SS men are sentenced to long prison terms.
Heinz Bernard Lammerding
...former SS group leader and lieutenant general of the Waffen-SS is also sentenced to death in absentia as former commander of the 2nd SS Panzer Division "Das Reich".
They are the perpetrators or commanders of the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre.
Shortly after 2 p.m. on June 10, 1944, around 150 soldiers from the 3rd company of the 4th SS Panzergrenadier Regiment “Der Führer” belonging to the 2nd SS Panzer Division “Das Reich” surrounded the village of Oradour-sur-Glane...:
The villagers are first herded together in the market square and then, after more than an hour, the SS divides them into men, women and children.
The more than 400 women and children are crammed into the small church. After about an hour and a half, SS people ignited a smoke bomb in a box in front of the altar with sticking gas, which caused acrid smoke and panic. When the windows of the church burst, those trapped were shot at and thrown at with hand grenades.
Escape attempts were also prevented by heavy shelling.
Eventually fire was set in the church; the wooden truss of the church tower burst into flames and eventually smashed through the nave roof onto the trapped crowd.
The 47-year-old farmer Marguerite Rouffanche alone...
... manages to flee through a window into a nearby pea bed, in which she, badly injured by five shots from a machine gun salvo, endures until the next day and thus survives.
Rouffanche testifies in Bordeaux as the main witness of the facility...:
While the women burn, the remaining 200+ men and older boys are locked in garages and barns.
In response to a signal shot, the SS men simultaneously opened fire to liquidate them. The piles of corpses are then set on fire with the help of straw, without regard to injured survivors.
Only five men manage to escape in time; she was also seriously injured.
The SS murdered a total of 642 people in Oradour, of whom only 52 could later be identified. Among the dead were 207 children and 254 women.
Then what is left of the village is completely destroyed by the SS.
The whole action was ordered as an act of revenge after actions by French partisans from Berlin, who had managed to take the department capital Tulle for a short time in the days before...
...when the city was recaptured, 122 members of the German Wehrmacht were killed...:
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On February 13, 1953, a French military tribunal at Bordeaux...
...convicts 21 former SS soldiers - all members of the 3rd company of the 4th SS Panzergrenadier Regiment "Der Führer" belonging to the 2nd SS Panzer Division "Das Reich"...:
Two death sentences are pronounced, all other SS men are sentenced to long prison terms.
Heinz Bernard Lammerding
...former SS group leader and lieutenant general of the Waffen-SS is also sentenced to death in absentia as former commander of the 2nd SS Panzer Division "Das Reich".
They are the perpetrators or commanders of the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre.
Shortly after 2 p.m. on June 10, 1944, around 150 soldiers from the 3rd company of the 4th SS Panzergrenadier Regiment “Der Führer” belonging to the 2nd SS Panzer Division “Das Reich” surrounded the village of Oradour-sur-Glane...:
The villagers are first herded together in the market square and then, after more than an hour, the SS divides them into men, women and children.
The more than 400 women and children are crammed into the small church. After about an hour and a half, SS people ignited a smoke bomb in a box in front of the altar with sticking gas, which caused acrid smoke and panic. When the windows of the church burst, those trapped were shot at and thrown at with hand grenades.
Escape attempts were also prevented by heavy shelling.
Eventually fire was set in the church; the wooden truss of the church tower burst into flames and eventually smashed through the nave roof onto the trapped crowd.
The 47-year-old farmer Marguerite Rouffanche alone...
... manages to flee through a window into a nearby pea bed, in which she, badly injured by five shots from a machine gun salvo, endures until the next day and thus survives.
Rouffanche testifies in Bordeaux as the main witness of the facility...:
While the women burn, the remaining 200+ men and older boys are locked in garages and barns.
In response to a signal shot, the SS men simultaneously opened fire to liquidate them. The piles of corpses are then set on fire with the help of straw, without regard to injured survivors.
Only five men manage to escape in time; she was also seriously injured.
The SS murdered a total of 642 people in Oradour, of whom only 52 could later be identified. Among the dead were 207 children and 254 women.
Then what is left of the village is completely destroyed by the SS.
The whole action was ordered as an act of revenge after actions by French partisans from Berlin, who had managed to take the department capital Tulle for a short time in the days before...
...when the city was recaptured, 122 members of the German Wehrmacht were killed...:
**continued next post**
