The Oradour-sur-Glane Tragedy | X Company
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- Опубликовано: 2 апр 2017
- In less than a day, a Nazi regiment reduced a French town to rubble, murdering all of its inhabitants. X Company's Dustin Milligan narrates the tragic story of Oradour-sur-Glane.
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The Oradour-sur-Glane Tragedy
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My wife and I visited Oradour in 2017. Walking the streets, and the cemetery left an everlasting impression and memory. I only wish every American high school student could visit Oradour and Normandy. Maybe, just maybe they would better appreciate and understand what freedom costs.
Brilliant comment !!!
I wish every American student learn that partisans activities aré forbbiden in war and this kind of things Will happen because of partisans.
@@easterworshipper730 I wish that some day, every fascist sympathizer will realize that people don't like being subjugated and put in cages and will fight back against oppressors.
Go be a devils advocate somewhere else, n@zi simp.
@@easterworshipper730Wie sollten denn die Franzosen anders reagieren ?! Sie wollten ihre Freiheit, ihr Land verteidigen. Das ist doch nur zu verständlich.
Le dernier survivant de ce massacre, Robert Hebras, est mort hier 11 février à l'âge de 97 ans dans un hôpital non loin d'Oradour. Il a beaucoup fait pour le souvenir de cette tragédie car, disait-il, Oradour il y pensait tous les jours, on le comprend très bien.
Translation : The last survivor of the massacre, Robert Hebras, died yesterday February 11th at the age of 97 years old in a hsopital not too far from Oradour-sur-Glane. He did a lot for the tragedy's memorial, because, have he said, that he thank about it everyday, we truly understand why.
I visited this town in my mid-teens. There are no words to describe what it's like to walk there, standing where so many innocents were slaughtered.
A few months later my history teacher asked us to research some historical events, I asked him if I could do it on Oradour-Sur-Glane because I had been there recently and was bored with the idea of researching some local events from the Medieval ages. He agreed. I got all my points and it made him wanting to go visit there as well.
Hi...could not agree more what an incisive comment
Good for you
NO MORE WAR ! 4 EVER ! .🙌 👏 🙏
I went there as a teen too. Very somber experience.
Don´t lie.
Today 76 years ago this happened. I visited this site twice, as a young boy not understanding the gravity of what happened here. And the second time when I was in my mid-twenties. Both my visits had an impact on me, my last visit being the biggest in my life. The story and history behind this town are something to contemplate.
These soldiers were animals, actually animals are much better. Even in Italy they did exactly the same things in a few different towns, not showing any mercy for children, women or pregnant women. I like the idea that this town was untouched and left the same way, so we won't forget ever.
Ihnen kann ich nur zustimmen. Wie können Menschen nur zu soetwas fähig sein ?! Wie würden diese deutschen Bestien reagieren, wenn ihren Lieben so etwas angetan worden wäre ?
I am from Germany and visited this place in 1998. After i didnt sleep well the first nights. For this action in 1944 there will never be an excuse or reason to try to understand the SS. It was pure evil.
the SS did the same thing to a town in Czechoslovakia-Lidice-in revenge for the assassination of Heydrich (the "butcher of Prague")
@@bufnyfan1 No, it had been the german Police (Schutzpolizei)!
@ALAIN TERIEUR Thank yo very much. At the age age 9 months I lost my family when the RAF under the command of Arthur Harris bombed my town in South Germany. Result 7000 persons were killed (1000 Children, also my sister with 6 years). Now I am very old, but the fear had not disappeared! War is hell!
@ALAIN TERIEUR Thank you very much for these interesting informations!
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I saw modern pictures of the town and it’s like time has stood still since that horrific massacre. Even the watches worn by the murdered men and women stopped because of the flames.
Well done and incredibly moving.
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Very well done, more videos like this please
Good video! I am though kind of suprised you didn't tell anything about why the Nazis whiped out Oradour. It would've been a nice addition to an already great video.
(for those who don't know why the Nazis did this, it was because a few Nazis were killed in a nearby town called Saint Junien. Some French resistance forces blew up a train bridge controlled by the Nazis. Commander Diekmann took revenge for the death of his soldiers. The revenge was the tragedy at Oradour-sur-Glanes)
Thank you so much I was looking for the answer to that question for ages
It's also believed to be retribution for the d day landings which took place days earlier. German forces were cut off from Normandy as allied air superiority made it impossible for the German reinforcements to mobilize. This isn't a direct cause of the massacre of Oradour but their frustration of this and the resulting rise of French resistance are considered to be factors.
@Kalissa H BS? Why?
So that gives you the right to massacre innocent people
I thought it was confused with the relatively close oradour-sur-vayres.
But i definitely might be wrong.
Boa tarde! Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil.
I knew someone who saw this village beforehand and after the massacre. I was the first person Reg told in 50 years. It broke 💔 his heart.
I am French, my wife is British and we live in England. In Primary school they teach children that France was ally of Germany! I complained and explained that we fight against Germany and lost the war like every European countries but we were not with the German. Teacher told me that I was wrong and it was in the curriculum. Pathetic. And the crime of Oradour is a proof that Germany was enemy of France and French.
Typically perfidious Albion ;)
Could be refering to the proxy vishi government, however that teacher should be very clear.
I'd also be pushed to my moral limits if someone stronger said I wont burn down your country if you fight for us.
I was raised in Britain and we learnt at school that France were Britain's allies and went to war together when Germany invaded Poland. So I have to call you out as a liar!
@@bestcomms908 yes they told you that when you were kid... but your media brainwahed you years after years and when adult, many british did say the opposite. (seen on multiple occasions)
@@bestcomms908 well, at the primary school of my kids, they said that France was an ally of Germany during WWII. I complained and they said that unfortunately, it's the curriculum. Amazing!!!!
Can i use this vide? royalty free?
who can i talk to about being able to use part of this video for a music piece?
Not one of the perpetrators were ever brought to trial..they just went on living without remorse!
I think most where killed in the following weeks
Absolutely heartbreaking,i read somewhere that in the next few days when people were finding out details about this atrocity,the ss had crucified a baby in the church aswell,one day i will visit & pay my respects to the poor souls of this village,may you all R.I.P. 🙏🙏❤❤
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The story of this baby murder was brought to life by American pilot (Murphy) shot down who came through the town in the days after the massacre. He was debriefed in England soon after and gave his account. This was kept classified until Murphy’s son got his statement released after 2000.
@@Tubbknuckles so it was true ? 😢 absolutely sickening.
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I love learning about history, and seek to learn more, yet here and now I learn about something that I have never heard of until just now. What a terrible tale that should be taught about and of much greater and detailed significance to our writers of history.
It's a damn shame that Americans media complex has blocked us from Canadian news and content on television!
You're Korean aren't Youu ?
Whaat are Youu doing in the U.S. trying to watch Canadian news content vs news content from Korea or other parts of Asia or England ?
Conocer la historia es importante para evitar los mismos errores. He visto 150 o más videos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, TODOS cometieron graves errores, masacres, violaciones. Reflexionemos para vivir en paz pero no
dejemos que el pasado nos atormente. Que nos ayude a prevenir y rechazar peligrosos líderes. De todo lo malo que provocó Hitler, Europa aprendió a vivir en paz desde 1945.
Evil was then and is flourishing now. Utter evil. My God is my refuge tho I live or die I am His forever
Anybody held to account. ?
The unit was wiped out a few weeks later when the Allies broke out of Normandy and encircled the Germans.
A post stamp (Yvert 742) brought me here.
What a tragedy :(
Heartbreaking.
. . . much more than that David. . . just . . . IN-describable . . . I got no words . . .
i have heard other horror story's to this place and what happend here. But Still interesting story good video
Thank you for posting this....💔😓😓😓😓😓😓Satanic evil, barbaric....wherever they were they butchered humans....In Poland, such brutalities happened weekly all over the country for 6 years.
Reading "Ordinanary Men: 101 Reserve Police Battalion, Final Solution in Poland" brought me here. The hairs on the back of my head have stood firmly without budging to lie flat. Oh such atrocities that my kind have commited!
I have a knife that was made in that town, my grandfather picked it up while crossing though Oradour-sur-Glane im about to do a video about it, and i feel like this knife belongs in a museum
WHY ?!?!
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If you want to an American equivalent for this senseless wholesale destruction, look up "Rosewood massacre."
This video is wrong. The division responsible was the 2nd SS or Das Reich. The 4th did Distomo in Greece so he must be confused with that one.
I thought so as well, but it is correct. Das Reich was split up to form a strong battle group in Russia and the rest sent to France to be refit with 9000 or so replacements. The remnants of the battle group joined them later. Das Reich was an overstrength regiment that grew to a Panzer Division after Kursk. The 3rd and 4th Regiments were Panzer Grenadier; 3rd was "Deutschland" and 4th under Diekmann were "Der Fuhrer". So it was the 4th SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment that committed this atrocity. They were destroyed during the breakout.
Ok
@@ProspectFilmRoom Incorrect, Der Fuhrer rgt was commanded by Sylvester Stadler, Diekmann commanded the 1st battalion.
@@frankvandergoes298 ????
@@tonybarde2572 ???
NO MORE WAR ! 4 EVER ! .🙌 👏 🙏
the drank the champagne because it was the only available alcohol, and they needed it to cope with their murderous profession.
General De Gaulle was correct not to rebuild it.
this is pure evil
This story is woven into The Huntress by Kristin Hannah. Historical fiction, good read.
Did all Germans involved die in war or through old age? If they're gone, no more memory of them should beentioned.
65 persons were charged after the war, 14 of them were French from Alsace who were amnestied. Two persons were sentenced to death but not executed. All were released from custody until 1959.
The responsible chief of staff Heinrich Lammerding died as a rich man in 1971 in Germany.
The only person who was severly punished was Heinz Barth who was imprisoned in the former GDR in 1981 and was released 1997. He died in 2007.
Forgetting about this evil would be the worst thing of all.
Down this road on a summer day in 1944 the soldiers came.
Disgusting
This is TOM
I read(2024) your book on Oradour sur Glane(Robert Pike ) : yes he mention "the citizens of the lower social classes of the moment":
-the French who were in the SS division which burned the village were not condemned,
-the "elites" of the village were enriched by using prisoners (Spaniards) as labor in the fields,
-the official French history did not mention the presence of a small handful of Jews in the Village & Spaniards...
a nightmare of propaganda, non says, no condemnation,
99.99% of French people who collaborated "for a new order" between 1940 and 1945 kept their real estate assets...
A real lesson to learn in war schools.
Bravo les allemands 👏🇩🇿🇩🇪
193 children*
As a descendent of a German family, I wish to visit one day and apologize. What was done here wasn’t uncommon with the SS… but this was especially bad. I think because it wasn’t a region the SS ever committed many tragic, yet it was one of the cruelest.
France was not a place atrocities were supposed to happen. (Not that it should have ever anywhere), but it was so unexpected and the SS tried this Hauptmann for this.
It’s not your job nor should you be expected to apologise for your country’s past, it’s our job collectively as a generation to remember these tragedies to ensure humanity never falls to these depths again
@@Adam-ui9qj I agree, today german are not responsible for what other german did in the past (same goes for all country) but it's everyone job to remember and not let that kind of thing happen again
🇫🇷🤝🇩🇪 i hope peace forever
Well I WAS in a good mood
Are you german??I´m sure that you are german and think that what they did was OK.Germans are always the same,no matter in which century they live.
@@Maria7162 bold of you to assume I'm German
@@Maria7162 Germany is only known for brutality since the 20th century. Before then Germans were less brutal than almost any other European power.
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Well, come to Ouradour ...... let's see if you would stay so happy ....
i have doubts about your personality ..
For real.
I thought It was Helmut Kampfe who was responsible Not Adolf Dietrich? Hmm 🤔
Helmut was killed by french resistance & the massacre was a reprisal
As far as I am aware: It was accurately reported by an American Raymond J Murphy. A B17 Navigator in his 20s who had survived being shot down over Avord. Murphy had witnessed the aftermath of the massacre (he was being cared for by the French resistance, probably at a neighboring village?) that the SS soldiers even crucified a baby. This, has sadly been confirmed as accurate. In 1953 a trial of the surviving 65 out of 200 SS soldiers only managed to find 21 guilty because Germany refused to extradite the rest. Confirmed as guilty or what? Just what I am discovering about this barbaric incident.
And all of the children died
*WHAT THE FREAKING HELL!!!! THESE SOLDIERS ARE MURDERERS!!! AT LEAST SOME OF THE SOLDIERS THAT MURDERED THE CHILDREN DIED, I HOPE THERE WERE SOME CHILDREN THAT WAS THERE HAD BEEN REINCARNATED!!!!!!!!!*
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Adolf Eichmann not adlof eekman
sehr tragen...
Someone in the town stole a truck full of German gold that's why they got mad 😮
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So sad i guess this was revenge for the killing of German Soldiers by the Resistence
They forgot to mention that many of the SS who did this were French volunteers. I wonder why they would leave such an important part out of this video?
Because among the 150 or more SS soldiers present on Oradour-sur-Glane, only 26 of them were French. There were 12 different nationalities in the Das Reich in June 1944 (Alsatians, Romanians, Hungarians, Croatians, Soviets, Germans, Austrians....).
@@phlm9038 The point is the French volunteers to the SS murdered fellow French citizens.
@@walterschumann2476 They were no volunteers. They were from Alsace, a region annexed by AH and were enlisted by force into the Waffen SS.
Communist partisan village
The horrible lie about Oradour. The truth is that the SS executed only the men of the village, because German soldiers were killed in Oradour.
The women and the children died in the church because of the explosion of the ammunition reserve in the church tower owned by the French resistance. This was proven by the analyze of the bones of the victims (and other proves). Their bones were broken (= explosion). If the victims would have been burned by the SS, the injuries would have been different and no broken bones. And other proves, like the church bell broken (= explosion and not melted, etc. ). The priest helped the local resistance accepting the ammunition to be hidden in the church tower. Unclear is still why the ammunition exploded.
The winners of the war claimed that there was no resistance forces in Oradour... But in fact, Oradour was the center of the local resistance and was targeted for that.
The old people in Oradour knew the truth. But of cause, they kept it secret (law of silence).
French historian Vincent Reynouard worked on the Oradour case for many years and published a lot of heavy documents and videos about it. Official history lie does all to hide the truth and the work of Reynouard was forbidden, experts and the Court refused even to discuss about his work and he was sentenced to prison in order to make him shut up. He still is in jail now. One of the French politic contemporary prisoners...
This is what socialism does. sad
You're an effing idiot. This wasn't socialism any more than than the DDR was "Democratic". Do you see this stuff gong in Sweden, for example? Stupid redneck.
@@pobbinista yep
what a sadness..... 😪🤍❤🩹
The germans have a lot to answer for!
as do us all,we all have our Mai Lai situations.
@@johnturnbull7176 , yes, we've all caused the death of 100 million people!
In this case I would say the SS.
@@phlm9038 , that was just a title for some germans!