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04/01/2008, 12:27 Dick Smith Joined on 23/08/2004 Surrey and Manche (Pays Mortainais) Posts 8,732 Re: Oradour sur Glanes There's a section on my unfinished (!) website about Oradour. Regards Dick Smith Nowhere is there warmth to be found Among those afraid of losing their ground    Report

04/01/2008, 12:50 Weedon Joined on 23/08/2004 Laval (53) Posts 1,136 Re: Oradour sur Glane  Dick Smith wrote: There's a section on my unfinished (!) website about Oradour. Excellent...as was the one I recall a year or so ago when Oradour was mentioned before.    Report

04/01/2008, 12:51 Hoddy Joined on 23/08/2004 .....Forum Moderator..... NW Leics/SE Dordogne Posts 2,082 Re: Oradour sur Glanes For those who would be interested in reading a little more widely, Max Hasting's book "Das Reich" tells the story of the journey from Mountauban to Normandy made by the panzer division which committed the atrocity at Oradour. It's chilling reading, Oradour was not the only despicable thing they did. I was full or admiration for the resistance fighters who tried to slow them down on the way. Hoddy    Report

04/01/2008, 13:14 Cat Joined on 21/01/2005 ------- Forum Moderator ------- Lot Posts 2,801 Re: Oradour sur Glanes Didn't they camp out at Pont Carral for a while Hoddy?  Not that far from either of us. Cathy Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...    Report

04/01/2008, 13:35 Hoddy Joined on 23/08/2004 .....Forum Moderator..... NW Leics/SE Dordogne Posts 2,082 Re: Oradour sur Glanes I'm can't remember anything about Pont Carral and stupidly, in spite of loads of promises to myself that I won't ever do it again, I've lent the book out so I can't look it up. There were certainly incidents at Grolejac, Rouffilac, Cressensac (on the N20 north) Brive and Tulle, where they only stopped hanging men from balconies and lamp posts when they ran out of rope. It was the same panzer group which was responsible for the many memorials in our area of people who they killed well before the Allied invasion. Hoddy    Report

04/01/2008, 13:45 Cat Joined on 21/01/2005 ------- Forum Moderator ------- Lot Posts 2,801 Re: Oradour sur Glanes Not the same division, but the story told here is quite also quite horrifying, and explains two of the memorials in our area, and also the reason behind the naming of the Boulevard  Des Martyrs in Gourdon ... http://www.quercy.net/qhistorique/resistance/gourdon.html   Cathy Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...    Report

05/01/2008, 7:48 Chas Joined on 23/08/2004 Mortagne sur Gironde, 17 Posts 311 Re: Oradour sur Glanes  Cat wrote: Didn't they camp out at Pont Carral for a while Hoddy?  Not that far from either of us. There is no mention in "Das Reich" of Pont Carral but this site notes that the bridge at Pont Carral was blown up by the resistance round about the 9/16 June.   http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/38/a8996638.shtml Chas 17    Report

05/01/2008, 14:01 Lizfjr Joined on 23/08/2004 89 Posts 131 Re: Oradour sur Glanes We took our daughters to Oradour last year. They are in their twenties, we in our forties. For both generations, it brought history to life. I think there is something wonderful about its preservation. I also visited Bergen Belsen last year. It was February and very bleak. There was only the distant rumble of guns from military exercises in the area and no birds singing. When you see the ordinariness of the villages of bergen - belsen, you have to ask: how did they do all this? And I often wonder when I travel around France quite how the *** managed to effect such complete control. Very thought provoking.    Report

05/01/2008, 15:53 Weedon Joined on 23/08/2004 Laval (53) Posts 1,136 Re: Oradour sur Glane The sad and terrifying reality is that none of us knows how we would behave were we to be placed into similar circumstances.  I imagine that we all like to think we would be heroes but only very few would be prepared to actually die for their beliefs.    Report

05/01/2008, 16:14 Lizfjr Joined on 23/08/2004 89 Posts 131 Re: Oradour sur Glane Quite.    Report

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