Some denial writings have been found on the walls of the abandoned village of Oradour-sur-Glane, site of the most serious massacre of French civilians by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. The writings were found on Friday by local authorities; on the same day, the French Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, said he had started an investigation to find the perpetrators.
Haute-Vienne: indignation in Oradour-sur-Glane after the degradation of the memory center of the martyr village where 642 inhabitants had been assassinated by the SS Das Reich division in 1944. The government promises to do everything to find the authors. #OradourSurGlane pic.twitter.com/CcDU7jj964
– French Info (@InfosFrancaises) August 22, 2020
On 10 June 1944 an armored division of the Waffen-SS killed 642 inhabitants of Oradour-sur-Glane and set fire to the village in retaliation for the killing of Commander Helmut Kämpfe by the French resistance. At the end of the war, the ruins of Oradour-sur-Glane became an outdoor memorial.
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