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Extract from the Oradour-sur-Glane Travel Guides:
Twenty-five kilometres northwest of Limoges and a few kilometres north of the N141 road to Angoulme, the village of
ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE
stands just as the soldiers of the SS left it on June 10, 1944, after killing all the inhabitants in reprisal for attacks by French
maquisards
. The village has been preserved both as a shrine and a chilling reminder of human brutality.
Before entering the village, the
Centre de la Mmoire
, immediately southeast of Oradour on the Limoges road (daily: Feb-April & mid-Oct to mid-Dec 9am-6pm; May to mid-Oct 9am-7pm; entry to village free, exhibiti... read the whole Oradour-sur-Glane Travel Guides...
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