This monstrous drama took place today, 76 years ago. I've been there twice. Once as a young boy, not fully understanding what I witnessed but it made me silent. Years later, mid-twenties I visited this place again with a close friend, we both were silent for a couple of days for we understood how inhumane this little part of history had been. Today, the 10th of june I thought of Oradour by chance and again I'm silent. 43 years of age and fully aware the world is still sick..
I've been there, it is horrifying and incredibly moving. I broke down in tears when I saw the burned-out pram in what is left of the church. Never again.
Je suis français, j'ai 64 ans et n'ai jamais visité ce village martyre dont on m'a parlé souvent. Votre reportage plein de pudeur sur lequel je suis tombé par hasard m'a ému mais d'une émotion au delà de la tragédie de la guerre, il s'en dégage paradoxalement une paix comme je n'ai pu en ressentir que dans certains lieux saints.
Merci pour ces gentils mots. C'est un endroit très émouvant. Quand nous avons visité et chaque fois que je regarde le film à nouveau. Je pense que la paix, l'amour et la tolérance sont la chose la plus importante qui soit.
We went there a few years ago with friends. It was my task to guide them arround in this town. I gathered a lot of information and shared it to my friends. It was a day of silence for everyone. The things happened in that little town makes you lose your words. After the day I gave my guided tour to another group that just entered the town. You need to read up a bit before you go, so you know the full story, it's worth it.
what a beautiful footage of a historical place presented smoothly. Great job and the background music is perfect! bless the souls of those who were wounded and their families and those 6 survivors were so lucky
@@TravelInPink Exactly. A very good point. To live to their 90's with that weight to carry with you. We don't know we're born. Puts a lot of things into perspective.
I am stunned by the gravity of this tragedy. 643 innocent lives. To me, even 1 is just too much. I always question why crimes like that could be committed when flipping history books. It seems to me righteous is a dream.
Were they 643 innocent lives or were they 643 lives who were engaged in resistance against the Germans in urban warfare? Your history books fail to mention all the atrocities committed by the Soviet Union/NKVD and even the Allied powers against German civilians. That is thanks, in part, to FDR and Churchill covering up atrocities committed by the Soviets and placed the blame onto Germany... Kaytn Massacre, for example?
I did not know of this monstrous deed until today. I was reading a book and there was a passing reference to this barbarity. I had to find out more. I am glad/sad that I did. This film is stunning. The music like tears running down the cheeks on the soul of humanity. I am changed by this film. We had a similar event in the state of Oklahoma in the US where an entire town within the city of Tulsa was burned and blacks slaughtered and shoveled into mass graves. I will never forget this film.
Kate Quinn included this massacre in her book The Alice Network. It’s a historical fiction book that included real facts. Through books like this it brings the history to light. I had never heard of this tragedy prior to reading her novel.
What an atrocity.. such a dark history ..cant imagine the scene when they even massacred the women and children too..the ruins are so beautiful but their history definitely brings pain.. Thanks for sharing this informative video.
I think the music matches really well with the tone of this video. So many horrible events happened during the time of WWII. It's so sad that so much was destroyed. All those beautiful buildings are now rubble and all those lives lost.
There is another video about that Oradour masssacre which has more information about missing facts of the prehistory before! And also about the similar event in Tulle nearby, where also gruel crimes happend.
A Tulle des atrocités commises par les mêmes SS, une centaine de résistants capturés ont été pendus a des balcons et des lampadaires de la place principale de la ville. La perversion des nazis !
Very sensitively done. It don’t sound right to say we enjoyed the video, but sometimes you have to look at the darker side. Thank you for making this video 🙏👍🌈
i know and i can see that was not easy for editing but worth it 4k views hey hey that its great and must say definetly worth it your hard work the editing transitions are amazing and so smooth with the music which is incredible and all the history facts that you put while the video footage thank you fo sharing realy powerfull touching stuff
Thanks a ton! It was the first year I was filming and only had a camcorder and a GoPro. The camcorder was not workable at all so I had to go with the GoPro for this one. I would love to do it over with my newer equipment for sure. Thanks again for your nice comment! 💕💗💕
I didn’t know about this, quite sad history. I’m wondering how many towns did suffer the same horrendous crimes and no everyone knows about it. The damage of WW2 has been catastrophic in many ways. It destroyed no only material things, but most importantly people’s life and future, it destroyed relationships among humans and created very deep wounds hard to seal.
@ALAIN TERRIEUR Merci beaucoup Alain. Je suis trés content por l'information. Please excuse me, my French is not the best! Sad for the one who was killed trying to escape. But so glad to hear of the survivors. What an amazing age to reach for the two in their 90's. Thank you so much for letting us know. ❤️
Thank you for touring us in France, and the history. Oh it was a terrible story of what happened. Thanks for sharing this video my friend. I'm here to give my full support to you, hope you are well and hoping you come to visit my house as well. Take care. See you around.
Very beautifully done. Regarding the 6 survivors, I'd like to clarify that 6 men survived one of the firing squads (one of them was shot & killed minutes after escaping) and one woman escaped a window of the burning church, was shot but managed to hide & survive. I assume those are considered the 6 survivors. But a 7 yr old boy, a refugee from another village that had been destroyed by the nazis, ran out the back door of the school when the nazis arrived. He was shot at, but not hit and managed to get to safety. Two Jewish teenage girls and their nine year old brother hid when the villagers were told to go to the identity control; a German soldier later found them but let them escape. Another few men who had worked with the communist party and at least one Jewish man hid, afraid of going to the identity control, and survived. I've always thought these survivors (of the tragedy, even if not of the firing squads/arson) had amazing stories as well.
Your editing, music, pacing and story is super beautiful. It touched my heart and made me want to tear as I''m watching it.💛 Only one small thing, is it normal that the translated text covers the English text? I couldn't read most of the text because it was covered :(
Thank you so much Trish 💕 There is only subtitles in Dutch but probably it translates automatic into English. In the video setting you can turn subtitles On or Off. I hope this helps.
@ERWIN DUBOIS we've been at war for almost 20 years. We know more about war then most countries today and we aren't brainwashed by it. War is hell and tragic in every way. I went to war at 19 and turned 20 in a combat zone. Deployed 2 more times after that. How much war have you experienced?
@ERWIN DUBOIS so somebody called the French cheese eating surrender monkeys in a comment section, many Europeans refer to Americans as stupid fat cowboys, or to the british as drunks with bad teeth. All vague generalized and joking. But when in the hell has anyone ever made slight out of human suffering such as this and specifically nazi war crimes in France. I think you must be a troll sir.
So many beautiful families lost their lives absolutely for no reason in hands of evil individuals . They left evil mark in so many different countries and so many innocent lives lost. I never knew this until today. Just heart baking. 💔💔💔
Hi Marina, Yes it's a very sad story. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and feelings for the lost lives. May we never forget and help to build a better future. 💗
One horrible image remains in my mind from the depiction of the carnage in a book I’ve read (La grande histoire des Français sous l’occupation, by Henri Amouroux), that of the hands of children, still standing where they died burning, detached from the bodies that had fallen at the base of the railing separating the choir from the rest of the church.
They did this across the USSR as well, this was typical SS MO, round up the men, women, and chirldren, separate them, herd them into barns and churches, set them ablaze and then execute the survivors and anyone who tries to escape the inferno.
A conflict between Austria, and Russia, over Serbia, should never have been allowed to escalate into a European wide war. The partitioning out of Germany and Austria, after 1919, and the further attempted rape, and enslavement of Germany & Austria between 1919, and 1923, brought the radical right to power in Europe. Many towns in ruin exist just like this in Silesia, Czechia, Western Poland, Western Ukraine, Transylvania, Croatia, and other places, and bare witness to the expulsion of 14 million Germans after 1945, all civilians; women, children, and elderly, many sent to slave labor camps in Siberia. The victors are allowed to commemorate their war victims, but not the Germans.
it was heart breaking to learn about this tragedy the fact that the germans even attempted to cover it up saying that there were insurgents in the town makes me sick
Indeed the massacre took place in different places. The men were gathered in six different places such as barns. The women and children were locked into the church. The houses were looted at the same time and set on fire. There is a book called "Das Reich : the march of the 2nd SS Panzer Division through France June 1944" by Max Hastings, with all the details of what happened.
@@marcobollo1532 what a beautiful looking place, makes it more eerie because if you didn't know what happened there you'd think it's just some beautiful old abandoned village whereas the reality is it witnessed france's greatest ever evil
The blank spots on the wall of victims, does that represent those who were killed but there is no photograph of them? What is title of the piano piece being played and the composer?
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@ELIE KOPTER OK, that's not enough for me. Unfortunately there are no facts about the whole truth on the net. History is full of contradictions. This is probably the reason that before Gauck no Federal President of Germany visited Oradour. While the war crimes of the Wehrmacht were well dealt with, this remained a marginal issue in the case of Allied war crimes in terms of the number of publications and their position in professional discourse. The behavior of Allied soldiers during the occupation period in the occupied area towards former wartime enemies has hardly been the subject of historical research to date. The milion crimes committed by the Allies against Germans after the war were never discussed either. Not one was convicted.
It was retaliation for Helmuth Kampfe who was burned alive by French Resistance. Allies were burning alive tens of thousands innocent civilians in Germany. I just hate the hypocrisy of so called good guys. Dont forget the fact that France declared war on Germany and France attacked Germany first in 1939, not vice versa. More French civilians were killed by allied bombing.
He was not burned alive. He was a war officer. Solidrrs can get killed when they occupy a country. You dont kill 600 civilians for this. Your comment is completely out of order.
@@laurentb4835 I agree. I might not necessarily be pro-partisans but the way the Nazis retaliated was completely out of order, they were actually very coward as they were killing defenceless civilians.
They Allies were burning innocent civilians? In what manner? Did they lock up civilians in churches and building and set them ablaze like the SS? You mean like how the Germans treated the Russians or Jews? You mean like the bombs they dropped on Britain? Dresden was not a good thing, but you are not actually trying compare that to what?
5:59 Diekmann at least got his punishment, hopefully he was in pain! If he had survived the war, he would probably have been able to lead a carefree life in the economic miracle of West Germany. Firstly, hardly anyone wanted to talk about these crimes after the war and secondly, there was hardly any real prosecution of these monstrous crimes. The Allies should have cracked down and brought these criminals to justice under their leadership. But in the emerging cold war, people did not want victors' justice. They needed West Germany as an ally. So many former SS people and Nazis continued to work for the new state for a long time that today it is said that it was only from the end of the 1960s with the new Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt, who was a Social Democrat, that real democratic structures could develop. The old spirits had to die out first.
@@TravelInPink You‘re welcome! There are two interesting films in Germany on this subject, they are about the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials in the 1960s. Courageous prosecutors broke the walls of silence and tried SS men in a German court. One film is called "Labyrinth of Lies" (may be available with English subtitles, the other "Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer". Fritz Bauer was Attorney General in Frankfurt and notorious as a Nazi hunter. By the way, he gave the Israeli secret service Mossad the clue where they could find Adolf Eichmann. He died under strange circumstances, there are rumours that he was murdered by former SS men. Trailer „Labyrinth of Lies“ ruclips.net/video/6jGxe6auuTg/видео.html
@@ruhri0411 Thank you very much for this. I find history very interesting and we always want to discover new things. No matter how many documentaries you watch there are always so many new things to discover.
how many would live out their days after the war having been apart of this and to not even come forward, shame. Only 78 years ago you'd think it was an act from medieval times
Diekmann did not die in combat. Stadler tried to court martial him. He committed suicide after receiving notice to report to Berlin for the investigation ordered by GFM Rommel
One statement towards the end of the video isn't true that no one was ever held responsible. There we're people charged, but not necessarily to the extent that they should have. 20 member of the SS we're sentenced to death, but only 2 were ever executed. The commander Heinz Lammerding was condemned to death, but was never found.
@ALEX TERIEUR innocent civilians including women and children killed in cold blood?! By the hundreds! Some burned alive!! Worth remembering but not justice? Reconciliation is not executing and giving a sentence of 2 to 5 years. I believe, unlike Werhmacht draftees, SS, especially foreigners, were volunteers! Did they have to at least confess to their evil deeds?
Happenings like these get me thinking... what if there was a way to prevent spreading the invention of gunpowder. Humans should "feel" when they decide to kill anyone, yet the reaction time from pulling a trigger and then rethinking their action is zero. If one had a sword in their hands, would they continue to kill so many or if any of the civilians at all?
And on the very same day, 10th June 1944, the Nazis massacred people in the village of Distomo in Greece. The vilest régime in history and we must never forget it.
What could the SS possibly hope to gain by this atrocity against non combatants? Was Diekmann acting alone or did he have orders from a higher authority in the German Military? Amazing France and Germany seem to get on with one another after this? Gives me the creeps just watching it. Let alone being there. When the photos were shown, that is when the reality of the horror really hit me. Damn onions. The calm and collected, organized malice aforethought and planned cruelty is incomprehensible to fully understand or grasp. Way beyond bloodlust. Way beyond sickening and way beyond what most human beings are capable of. I hope this memorial lasts forever and I also hope it is protected from the inevitable, mindless vandal element in most societies?
@ÖTTO MATTHIK That is the problem then. No one still knows for certain if this grotesque incident was from orders from above or Deikmanns own actions and severe unstable mental incapacity?
@ÖTTO MATTHIK I thought there might be other places too. Pretty disturbing, especially murdering non combatants and unarmed ones at that in cold blood.
@ÖTTO MATTHIK Right, ok. I have finally had time to discover more about this and still trying to come to terms with the stone cold blooded slaughter of unarmed innocent citizens in Oradour. It will take a while to sink in and to appreciate the depth of evilness and cruelty behind it. Friends of mine were camped at Mansle France, just of the N10, a few years ago (about 50 miles West of Oradour) but they never visited. Shame on them for deciding that drinking was more important.
@ELIE KOPTER i knew the french were let go, and the germans used the same excuse they did that they were conscripted into service against their will. well, like i said, i thought two were executed before that.
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I have been to this place a few times and it brings to me much sadness because I can feel for the lose of so many lives because of the madness of one or two maniacs! Let's not forget these maniacs we're not true human beings! Now putting this to one side! The French have put in how can I say! A picture to some degree that is not true to the day this had happened! If you walk around this town and look at the vehicles that have been burnt out you can see that a couple of them are right hand drive! Also if you are a mechanic you can see that the steering ball joints are from a Leyland vehicle! Looking further at the wreck you can see that there is a hole punctured into the engine sump! When the British arm forces were told to evacuate Dunkirk the commanding officers instructed the drivers to puncture their sumps of the vehicle's and run them at full throttle so the engine would seize! Now we find these vehicle's in this town! Yes it is terrible, but the truth does not warrant any bending of the truth
@@jeanproffitte201 Dunkirk happened in 1940, the crimes in this town were in 1944! The Garage in the town was not very efficient was it! Don't tell me the garage was waiting for a new engine to be flown from Britain!
Edits are too fast and choppy, can't take anything in and it jumps all over the place, I don't know where we are. It's like watching through the eyes of an amphetamine addict
Hi Sui, Thanks for your feedback. This was one of my first videos. I know some people will like a full walking video but some people want to have more of a quicker overview. Do you prefer more complete walking videos more? BTW, I'm no amphetamine addict 😉
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The end with the photographs got me. How utterly despicable the Nazis were. May the lives of these villagers always be remembered.
This monstrous drama took place today, 76 years ago. I've been there twice. Once as a young boy, not fully understanding what I witnessed but it made me silent. Years later, mid-twenties I visited this place again with a close friend, we both were silent for a couple of days for we understood how inhumane this little part of history had been. Today, the 10th of june I thought of Oradour by chance and again I'm silent. 43 years of age and fully aware the world is still sick..
I completely understand the silence Dimitri. It comes from within when you are entering the village.
Amen.
It was so inhumane even the nazis were disgusted. And they built camps...
I've been before but want to go again, are there any other historic sites from the second world war near here?
@@xenonn7275 The Germans weren't the only ones to build camps. You do know they were built by the allies aswell?
I've been there, it is horrifying and incredibly moving. I broke down in tears when I saw the burned-out pram in what is left of the church. Never again.
Unfortunately, there have been many atrocities since then. Not on this scale, but remember the massacre in the Rwandan church? 😢
This is a terrible tragedy that I never knew about until today. Thank you so much for sharing this story.
Thank you Mitchell.
@@TravelInPink You are so welcome!
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Es horrible el mal que hicieron los nazis.
Je suis français, j'ai 64 ans et n'ai jamais visité ce village martyre dont on m'a parlé souvent. Votre reportage plein de pudeur sur lequel je suis tombé par hasard m'a ému mais d'une émotion au delà de la tragédie de la guerre, il s'en dégage paradoxalement une paix comme je n'ai pu en ressentir que dans certains lieux saints.
Merci pour ces gentils mots. C'est un endroit très émouvant. Quand nous avons visité et chaque fois que je regarde le film à nouveau.
Je pense que la paix, l'amour et la tolérance sont la chose la plus importante qui soit.
@@TravelInPink thank you for a well put together video, and excellent choice of music.
Beyond adequate words! Thank you for showing us their photos, may they all rest in eternal peace.
Thanks for your appreciation! You describe it very good: Beyond adequate words
We went there a few years ago with friends. It was my task to guide them arround in this town. I gathered a lot of information and shared it to my friends. It was a day of silence for everyone. The things happened in that little town makes you lose your words. After the day I gave my guided tour to another group that just entered the town.
You need to read up a bit before you go, so you know the full story, it's worth it.
You are so right about that. Entering the tunnel already made me humble and silent.
This is a sad and painful story but one necessary to be shared as to not be forgotten.
So true Greg
What a incredibly emotional video. I have never heard of this massacre. Excellent job highlighting this tragedy that should never be repeated.
It was emotional indeed. Never visited places like this before but after this I could understand the stories of other people a lot better.
Remember Rwanda? 😢
@@janeworrall3694 what's the matter ?
@@jamespatagueule4599 In what respect?
@@janeworrall3694 I mean Rwanda was a civil war and oradour/Glane was a massacre by a foreign country
We share your pain 🙏 We are with you every time 😢. Respect from TURKEY ❤️🇹🇷
Very well done 🙏! So many sad stories in Ww2. Your video is a perfect reminder of this. Places like this must be preserved.
Thank you very much Shawn and Mai! You are so right 🥰
Been there twice and came away stunned. Both times.The doctors car in the square where he was killed.
Thank you for documenting this! I love to learn about history. We don’t want to repeat the past. Heartbreaking 💔
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You are so right about that. Let's pray we never have to see things like this again.
what a beautiful footage of a historical place presented smoothly. Great job and the background music is perfect! bless the souls of those who were wounded and their families and those 6 survivors were so lucky
Thank you so much Pam. The music represents our feelings from that day. It was not easy being there. 💗
I don't think they were lucky
@@MotherAlgorithm You got a point there. It depends how you see it. Lucky to be alive but traumatised for life.
@@TravelInPink Exactly. A very good point. To live to their 90's with that weight to carry with you.
We don't know we're born.
Puts a lot of things into perspective.
Very emotional and sad place. Thank you for such a great footage of this tragic place!
Yes it is very sad. Thanks 👍
Thank you for shining light on the horrors of war. May their souls rest in eternal peace.
Thank you Maggie. Yes, may they never be forgotten.
Thanks for sharing this place. I have learnt something today. RIP
It's not a happy story at all but it needs to be told. Take care 💗
I am stunned by the gravity of this tragedy. 643 innocent lives. To me, even 1 is just too much. I always question why crimes like that could be committed when flipping history books.
It seems to me righteous is a dream.
Many thanks for your comment. We have to remember.
Were they 643 innocent lives or were they 643 lives who were engaged in resistance against the Germans in urban warfare?
Your history books fail to mention all the atrocities committed by the Soviet Union/NKVD and even the Allied powers against German civilians. That is thanks, in part, to FDR and Churchill covering up atrocities committed by the Soviets and placed the blame onto Germany...
Kaytn Massacre, for example?
I did not know of this monstrous deed until today. I was reading a book and there was a passing reference to this barbarity. I had to find out more. I am glad/sad that I did. This film is stunning. The music like tears running down the cheeks on the soul of humanity. I am changed by this film. We had a similar event in the state of Oklahoma in the US where an entire town within the city of Tulsa was burned and blacks slaughtered and shoveled into mass graves.
I will never forget this film.
This is a very respectful video, thank you.
So sad,such a loss of innocent lives,men women and children. May their souls rest in peace 🙏 with the angles in heaven.
That is so nice of you to say. Thanks.
I can't the horror those people felt and the sadness of the love ones left behind. This memorial will remind us the cruelty on war.
It's a crazy story Jether. The buildings and the story sound like they are from a movie but the truth is that it really happened.
Thank you for sharing. There are no words to express this cruelty. We must never forget it.
Kate Quinn included this massacre in her book The Alice Network. It’s a historical fiction book that included real facts. Through books like this it brings the history to light. I had never heard of this tragedy prior to reading her novel.
What an atrocity.. such a dark history ..cant imagine the scene when they even massacred the women and children too..the ruins are so beautiful but their history definitely brings pain.. Thanks for sharing this informative video.
Yes it is beautiful to see these ruins but the story behind it is awful. It is definitely worth a visit but it's not an easy visit.
@@TravelInPink yes absolutely. I agree. Difficult to see this ugly truth about this carnage
@@traveldiarieswithadi496 If you ever visit France make sure to visit because it is something you will never forget.
@@TravelInPink absolutely
@@traveldiarieswithadi496 😉
I think the music matches really well with the tone of this video. So many horrible events happened during the time of WWII. It's so sad that so much was destroyed. All those beautiful buildings are now rubble and all those lives lost.
Glad you enjoyed it Away With Wind! I try to capture the feeling I had while visiting with the music that I present in the videos.
Wow, so interesting to see the history of this place. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching 😉
History involves both happy and sad memories. Thank you for this great video ❤️
Absolutely!
Thanks 😉
There is another video about that Oradour masssacre which has more information about missing facts
of the prehistory before! And also about the similar event in Tulle nearby, where also gruel crimes happend.
A Tulle des atrocités commises par les mêmes SS, une centaine de résistants capturés ont été pendus a des balcons et des lampadaires de la place principale de la ville.
La perversion des nazis !
Very sensitively done. It don’t sound right to say we enjoyed the video, but sometimes you have to look at the darker side. Thank you for making this video 🙏👍🌈
Well said!
@@TravelInPink 🙏
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A year ago today , I visited HERE it was the most magical feeling of peacefulness ..... you can feel Angels everywhere.
Thank you for sharing 🙏🏽
Thank you for caring Lynne 😉
i know and i can see that was not easy for editing but worth it 4k views hey hey that its great and must say definetly worth it your hard work the editing transitions are amazing and so smooth with the music which is incredible and all the history facts that you put while the video footage thank you fo sharing realy powerfull touching stuff
Thanks a ton! It was the first year I was filming and only had a camcorder and a GoPro. The camcorder was not workable at all so I had to go with the GoPro for this one. I would love to do it over with my newer equipment for sure. Thanks again for your nice comment! 💕💗💕
Also I really respect the silence while showing all the beautiful photos
Thank you.
Interesting to know about this historic places ! Thanks for sharing👍
Thanks for visiting
I didn’t know about this, quite sad history. I’m wondering how many towns did suffer the same horrendous crimes and no everyone knows about it. The damage of WW2 has been catastrophic in many ways. It destroyed no only material things, but most importantly people’s life and future, it destroyed relationships among humans and created very deep wounds hard to seal.
Thanks for this I always remember watching about this on,
The World At War
I’m here today to pay my respects 🙏
Thank you so much. All respect to you too 🥰
This was beyond evil. There are no words. Best I can do is terrible. I am so upset. RIP everyone there.
Yes it is. It is exactly the feeling you have when you enter the area.
How did those six people survive? I can’t imagine living with the memory of such horror.
@ALAIN TERRIEUR Merci beaucoup Alain. Je suis trés content por l'information. Please excuse me, my French is not the best!
Sad for the one who was killed trying to escape. But so glad to hear of the survivors. What an amazing age to reach for the two in their 90's.
Thank you so much for letting us know. ❤️
Beautifully and respectfully filmed.
Thanks for sharing
Hi nitzduping D Explorer, thank you for your nice comment. I really appreciate your support. Please stay tuned and expect a new video each Monday. 😉💗
Did visit this place. Very silent and eerie. Thank you for this video.
Yes it was. You are welcome.
crazy this is left like that. Pretty cool.
Yes, it's like you entered a time machine. It's a bizarre experience.
Well, this is a new thing for me. Tks for sharing this
Thanks for visiting
I love your video and watching everytime ❤️ 👍
You are the best 💕💕
This is such a sad story
Yes it really is
Thank you for touring us in France, and the history. Oh it was a terrible story of what happened. Thanks for sharing this video my friend.
I'm here to give my full support to you, hope you are well and hoping you come to visit my house as well. Take care. See you around.
I was glad to inform you Ofelia. Even the story is not a happy ending, it is a story that not can be forgotten. I will check it out for sure!
Very nice video👍
Thank you very much!
Very beautifully done. Regarding the 6 survivors, I'd like to clarify that 6 men survived one of the firing squads (one of them was shot & killed minutes after escaping) and one woman escaped a window of the burning church, was shot but managed to hide & survive. I assume those are considered the 6 survivors. But a 7 yr old boy, a refugee from another village that had been destroyed by the nazis, ran out the back door of the school when the nazis arrived. He was shot at, but not hit and managed to get to safety. Two Jewish teenage girls and their nine year old brother hid when the villagers were told to go to the identity control; a German soldier later found them but let them escape. Another few men who had worked with the communist party and at least one Jewish man hid, afraid of going to the identity control, and survived. I've always thought these survivors (of the tragedy, even if not of the firing squads/arson) had amazing stories as well.
Your editing, music, pacing and story is super beautiful. It touched my heart and made me want to tear as I''m watching it.💛 Only one small thing, is it normal that the translated text covers the English text? I couldn't read most of the text because it was covered :(
Thank you so much Trish 💕 There is only subtitles in Dutch but probably it translates automatic into English. In the video setting you can turn subtitles On or Off. I hope this helps.
@@TravelInPink oh, that's great info, thank you:)
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So heartbreaking 💔
Should be shown to every American you tubers that insults the French suffering in WW 2
I didn't know that happened. Why is that?
You need to give specific examples when you say things like this.
What about the Soviet suffering,from Stalin and that other fkg maniac Dolf..
@ERWIN DUBOIS we've been at war for almost 20 years. We know more about war then most countries today and we aren't brainwashed by it. War is hell and tragic in every way. I went to war at 19 and turned 20 in a combat zone. Deployed 2 more times after that. How much war have you experienced?
@ERWIN DUBOIS so somebody called the French cheese eating surrender monkeys in a comment section, many Europeans refer to Americans as stupid fat cowboys, or to the british as drunks with bad teeth.
All vague generalized and joking.
But when in the hell has anyone ever made slight out of human suffering such as this and specifically nazi war crimes in France.
I think you must be a troll sir.
So many beautiful families lost their lives absolutely for no reason in hands of evil individuals . They left evil mark in so many different countries and so many innocent lives lost. I never knew this until today. Just heart baking. 💔💔💔
Hi Marina,
Yes it's a very sad story. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and feelings for the lost lives.
May we never forget and help to build a better future.
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One horrible image remains in my mind from the depiction of the carnage in a book I’ve read (La grande histoire des Français sous l’occupation, by Henri Amouroux), that of the hands of children, still standing where they died burning, detached from the bodies that had fallen at the base of the railing separating the choir from the rest of the church.
History has its sad moments but hopefully we remember and learn from it. Thanks for sharing.
I hope so too. Thank you for your support 💗
I am going to visit this place & pay my respects to every one of these poor souls,R.I.P. Lest we forget 💔💔
Oradour-Sur-Glane! I'm trying to get my head around this! How can man have done this? Then I remember the Einsatzgruppen!
Yes the world is still Sick after 86 years
Beautiful 😍
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They did this across the USSR as well, this was typical SS MO, round up the men, women, and chirldren, separate them, herd them into barns and churches, set them ablaze and then execute the survivors and anyone who tries to escape the inferno.
That is so bad to hear. Thank you for sharing your story.
4:36 is that the altar with the three windows behind it, the largest of which one survivor lady said she jumped from after feigning death?
Yes that is correct.
Very impressive
A very sad thing.hard to watch.
Very true
A conflict between Austria, and Russia, over Serbia, should never have been allowed to escalate into a European wide war. The partitioning out of Germany and Austria, after 1919, and the further attempted rape, and enslavement of Germany & Austria between 1919, and 1923, brought the radical right to power in Europe. Many towns in ruin exist just like this in Silesia, Czechia, Western Poland, Western Ukraine, Transylvania, Croatia, and other places, and bare witness to the expulsion of 14 million Germans after 1945, all civilians; women, children, and elderly, many sent to slave labor camps in Siberia. The victors are allowed to commemorate their war victims, but not the Germans.
it was heart breaking to learn about this tragedy the fact that the germans even attempted to cover it up saying that there were insurgents in the town makes me sick
This is so depressing
I can understand
Yeah this is why I feel nothing for the citizens of Dresden.
. . . revanche DESERVED . . .
Monsters roam this beautiful planet disguised as humans.
is there an exact spot in the town where the massacre took place or was it spread out in different parts of the town ?
As I recall correctly there were a few different parts where the massacres took place.
Indeed the massacre took place in different places. The men were gathered in six different places such as barns. The women and children were locked into the church. The houses were looted at the same time and set on fire. There is a book called "Das Reich : the march of the 2nd SS Panzer Division through France June 1944" by Max Hastings, with all the details of what happened.
@@fantomasvsfantomas2288 where is the exact location of the church ?
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You can see it at 3.21
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@@marcobollo1532 what a beautiful looking place, makes it more eerie because if you didn't know what happened there you'd think it's just some beautiful old abandoned village whereas the reality is it witnessed france's greatest ever evil
The blank spots on the wall of victims, does that represent those who were killed but there is no photograph of them? What is title of the piano piece being played and the composer?
Not sure about the blind spots.
The 2 songs used are" Ave Air- The Music box" and "Johannes Bornlof - Burned Letters"
@@TravelInPink Thank you.
So sad. Whats the music in the video?
Yes it was and still is...😢
The first song is Ave Air - The Music Box and the second song is Johannes Bornlof - Burned Letters.
very chilling, if those walls could talk……
Sighhh i love this video, but that be some depressing stuff. i have never heard of this place nor its story. Thank you, man, for opening my eyes.
Yes it's hard to see and being there is even harder. Nevertheless it's important to know.
I once saw a movie about aradour su glan and the massacre of the inhabitants R.I.P men women children of this village
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was this the town that was in very first scene in " the world at war" series from the 70s??
I can't tell. I didn't watch the series. I watched already a lot but this one I think I don't know. Is it a good series?
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@@marcobollo1532 Yes that is it. It's strange to see that it still looks the same in real like the 70's series. Have you been here?
@@TravelInPink
Yes; in 2015. It's closed now because of Covid
@@marcobollo1532 We filmed this in 2018 but I sure want to go back one day.
Hard to believe a town that small had a tram system. We need that sort of thinking today or the whole planet will look like that.
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What is the story before this story? What was the reason for this massacre ?
@ELIE KOPTER OK, that's not enough for me. Unfortunately there are no facts about the whole truth on the net. History is full of contradictions. This is probably the reason that before Gauck no Federal President of Germany visited Oradour.
While the war crimes of the Wehrmacht were well dealt with, this remained a marginal issue in the case of Allied war crimes in terms of the number of publications and their position in professional discourse. The behavior of Allied soldiers during the occupation period in the occupied area towards former wartime enemies has hardly been the subject of historical research to date.
The milion crimes committed by the Allies against Germans after the war were never discussed either. Not one was convicted.
It was retaliation for Helmuth Kampfe who was burned alive by French Resistance.
Allies were burning alive tens of thousands innocent civilians in Germany.
I just hate the hypocrisy of so called good guys.
Dont forget the fact that France declared war on Germany and France attacked Germany first in 1939, not vice versa.
More French civilians were killed by allied bombing.
He was not burned alive. He was a war officer. Solidrrs can get killed when they occupy a country. You dont kill 600 civilians for this. Your comment is completely out of order.
@@laurentb4835 I agree. I might not necessarily be pro-partisans but the way the Nazis retaliated was completely out of order, they were actually very coward as they were killing defenceless civilians.
Germany was lucky the atom bomb wasn't dropped on them this is still top secret
They Allies were burning innocent civilians? In what manner? Did they lock up civilians in churches and building and set them ablaze like the SS?
You mean like how the Germans treated the Russians or Jews? You mean like the bombs they dropped on Britain?
Dresden was not a good thing, but you are not actually trying compare that to what?
If Helmuth Kampfe had stayed in Germany he would not have been burned alive.
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5:59 Diekmann at least got his punishment, hopefully he was in pain!
If he had survived the war, he would probably have been able to lead a carefree life in the economic miracle of West Germany.
Firstly, hardly anyone wanted to talk about these crimes after the war and secondly, there was hardly any real prosecution of these monstrous crimes.
The Allies should have cracked down and brought these criminals to justice under their leadership. But in the emerging cold war, people did not want victors' justice. They needed West Germany as an ally.
So many former SS people and Nazis continued to work for the new state for a long time that today it is said that it was only from the end of the 1960s with the new Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt, who was a Social Democrat, that real democratic structures could develop. The old spirits had to die out first.
Thanks for the extended information. 😉👍
@@TravelInPink You‘re welcome!
There are two interesting films in Germany on this subject, they are about the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials in the 1960s. Courageous prosecutors broke the walls of silence and tried SS men in a German court.
One film is called "Labyrinth of Lies" (may be available with English subtitles, the other "Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer". Fritz Bauer was Attorney General in Frankfurt and notorious as a Nazi hunter. By the way, he gave the Israeli secret service Mossad the clue where they could find Adolf Eichmann.
He died under strange circumstances, there are rumours that he was murdered by former SS men.
Trailer „Labyrinth of Lies“
ruclips.net/video/6jGxe6auuTg/видео.html
@@ruhri0411 Thank you very much for this. I find history very interesting and we always want to discover new things. No matter how many documentaries you watch there are always so many new things to discover.
how many would live out their days after the war having been apart of this and to not even come forward, shame. Only 78 years ago you'd think it was an act from medieval times
Diekmann did not die in combat. Stadler tried to court martial him. He committed suicide after receiving notice to report to Berlin for the investigation ordered by GFM Rommel
Thanks for the subtitle in english and german.
Germany should only been allowed to exist as a province of France for the punishment
us French are now friends with germans because we have the ability of resilience
One statement towards the end of the video isn't true that no one was ever held responsible. There we're people charged, but not necessarily to the extent that they should have.
20 member of the SS we're sentenced to death, but only 2 were ever executed. The commander Heinz Lammerding was condemned to death, but was never found.
@ALEX TERIEUR National unity? What, there were lots of French people that thought that behavior was acceptable? I don't get it!
@ALEX TERIEUR innocent civilians including women and children killed in cold blood?! By the hundreds! Some burned alive!! Worth remembering but not justice? Reconciliation is not executing and giving a sentence of 2 to 5 years. I believe, unlike Werhmacht draftees, SS, especially foreigners, were volunteers!
Did they have to at least confess to their evil deeds?
Many others massacres in France during 4 years, like the massacre of Maillé, August 1944 :
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maill%C3%A9_massacre
I didn't know about this one. Thanks for sharing 👍
Sad people took a bunch of shut over the years why the floors and most debrie and windows are gone
Yes, It's good it is protected now
The Germans set fire to the whole village. All that would have been cleaned up were the ashes. ruclips.net/video/z-3ypkT8UuQ/видео.html
Happenings like these get me thinking... what if there was a way to prevent spreading the invention of gunpowder. Humans should "feel" when they decide to kill anyone, yet the reaction time from pulling a trigger and then rethinking their action is zero.
If one had a sword in their hands, would they continue to kill so many or if any of the civilians at all?
It states Nazis did this. No, Germans did this! They practiced it in Lidice Czechslovakia in 1942.
Never heard about the story from Lidice. Thanks for letting me know. We always like to know about the history.
And on the very same day, 10th June 1944, the Nazis massacred people in the village of Distomo in Greece. The vilest régime in history and we must never forget it.
So true. We may never forget!
What could the SS possibly hope to gain by this atrocity against non combatants? Was Diekmann acting alone or did he have orders from a higher authority in the German Military? Amazing France and Germany seem to get on with one another after this? Gives me the creeps just watching it. Let alone being there. When the photos were shown, that is when the reality of the horror really hit me. Damn onions. The calm and collected, organized malice aforethought and planned cruelty is incomprehensible to fully understand or grasp. Way beyond bloodlust. Way beyond sickening and way beyond what most human beings are capable of. I hope this memorial lasts forever and I also hope it is protected from the inevitable, mindless vandal element in most societies?
@ÖTTO MATTHIK That is the problem then. No one still knows for certain if this grotesque incident was from orders from above or Deikmanns own actions and severe unstable mental incapacity?
@ÖTTO MATTHIK I thought there might be other places too. Pretty disturbing, especially murdering non combatants and unarmed ones at that in cold blood.
@ÖTTO MATTHIK Right, ok. I have finally had time to discover more about this and still trying to come to terms with the stone cold blooded slaughter of unarmed innocent citizens in Oradour. It will take a while to sink in and to appreciate the depth of evilness and cruelty behind it. Friends of mine were camped at Mansle France, just of the N10, a few years ago (about 50 miles West of Oradour) but they never visited. Shame on them for deciding that drinking was more important.
@ÖTTO MATTHIK 👍😁
Satan lived in the SS
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someone correct me if i'm wrong, but i thought they eventually executed two of the soldiers for war crimes who were present that day.
@ELIE KOPTER i knew the french were let go, and the germans used the same excuse they did that they were conscripted into service against their will.
well, like i said, i thought two were executed before that.
Ghost of German army demolished oradou village
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I bin there once
How was your feeling and experience?
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Same story as of Jalianwala Bagh, british army shot hundreds of Indian Freedom Fighters.
OMG, that is so sad. Never heard about that.
Add to this tragedy: There is Germany's " handiwork " (Cemeteries) all over Europe today....
this made me quiet
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I have been to this place a few times and it brings to me much sadness because I can feel for the lose of so many lives because of the madness of one or two maniacs!
Let's not forget these maniacs we're not true human beings!
Now putting this to one side!
The French have put in how can I say!
A picture to some degree that is not true to the day this had happened!
If you walk around this town and look at the vehicles that have been burnt out you can see that a couple of them are right hand drive!
Also if you are a mechanic you can see that the steering ball joints are from a Leyland vehicle!
Looking further at the wreck you can see that there is a hole punctured into the engine sump!
When the British arm forces were told to evacuate Dunkirk the commanding officers instructed the drivers to puncture their sumps of the vehicle's and run them at full throttle so the engine would seize!
Now we find these vehicle's in this town!
Yes it is terrible, but the truth does not warrant any bending of the truth
@@jeanproffitte201 For your information the vehicles that I am talking about were British Leyland trucks with holes punctured in their sumps!
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So, what you mean ?
@@jeanproffitte201 well obviously these were not repaired were they!
@@mikelane4896
All these destroyed cars were in repair in the Desourteaux Garage.
@@jeanproffitte201 Dunkirk happened in 1940, the crimes in this town were in 1944!
The Garage in the town was not very efficient was it!
Don't tell me the garage was waiting for a new engine to be flown from Britain!
All over Kampfe, who's abduction left him in a pig pen.
Edits are too fast and choppy, can't take anything in and it jumps all over the place, I don't know where we are. It's like watching through the eyes of an amphetamine addict
Hi Sui, Thanks for your feedback. This was one of my first videos. I know some people will like a full walking video but some people want to have more of a quicker overview. Do you prefer more complete walking videos more?
BTW, I'm no amphetamine addict 😉