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@rogerstevens4818

Жыл бұрын

I have been here, no birds can be heard here its void of all sound my wife just wept and that was before we experienced everything , young people need to touch these places to truly understand the horror of war. Its not like a game on a computer

@paulhuggins5901

Жыл бұрын

I visited many years ago. A truly moving experience. As Roger says it's eerily silent. In the 5 minutes or so it took to walk back to the car nobody in our party spoke!

@kimwoodley1351

Жыл бұрын

~ Lest We Forget ~

@1Anakinred

Жыл бұрын

Try to make documentary about Kragujevac massacre in 1941. Brutal story of small town in Sebia unknown in west. Thank you for making this videos. NEVER FORGET

@phlm9038

Жыл бұрын

@@tapasdechance7473 Starting with you.

I visited this place with my wife and son in 1978. There was a sign I couldn't bring myself to translate for my wife as I couldn't speak. The silence and peace of the ruins can't obliterate the sense of horror of what was done to ordinary people.

"This is the village of Oradour-Sur-Glane. Nobody lives here anymore" -- literally the opening words of the MOST authoritative documentary series on WWII - "The World at War"

@MegaMkmiller

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I remember that truly GREAT series. My father and I watched it every Sunday night. And I remember that section on Oradour. It was awful but World at War handled it magnificently.

@serinahartman2948

11 ай бұрын

They built a new town, next to oradour

@SenzoTanaka

8 ай бұрын

It is somewhat outdated having been made in the 1970s, before the Soviet Union was dismantled. Definitely the most iconic WW2 series from west though.

Last survivor died February 2023. The brutality of the Warren SS is astonishing. Thank you for this video.

@easterworshipper730

7 ай бұрын

Partisans aré forbbiden in the war.

@Spudtron98

8 күн бұрын

@@easterworshipper730 Bit less forbidden than murdering an entire town, I'd wager.

@easterworshipper730

8 күн бұрын

@@Spudtron98 the allies killed 70k french civillians during the normandy bombing campaign, they need to keep this Little stories alive to keep the crimes of the Mass murderers under the rug.

@easterworshipper730

8 күн бұрын

@@Spudtron98 the allies killed 70k french civillians during the normandy bombing campaign, they need this type of Little stories alive to keep the crimes of the Mass murderers under the rug.

My French teacher lost her older sister in Oradour on that day. All she could find to remember her by was a scorched piece of the blue coat her sister was wearing, and on every jacket or coat my teacher wore she had sewn a small blue square of that material on the lapel. We were curious as to why that was, and one day a boy asked... The reason was given. along with a history and philosophy lesson which left us extremely moved and respectful. Needless to say there was never a need for the question to be asked or the reason given again for as long as we or the teacher stayed at the school... EVERY PUPIL KNEW... and so it is I am sure wherever that teacher went, and whichever school she taught at. I am now in my 70s and therefore I think the teacher will have met her sister again... but none of us have forgotten the blue squares I am sure. Like me... many will have one day gone to visit the French village near Limoges... Lest we forget...

@redtobertshateshandles

7 ай бұрын

That's a moving story. Wow.

@mynamedoesntmatter8652

2 ай бұрын

I got a screenshot of your extremely moving comment. What a testimony to her sister’s memory, and testimony to all the people who lost everything to the brutality of this unforgettable time. God bless you and thank you for sharing this story.

@3bebles

2 ай бұрын

@@mynamedoesntmatter8652 If only the world had learnt from such unforgettable and unforgivable episodes! The brutality is still here and rising all around despite the cruel and shameful lessons of History...

As a Limoges resident I would like to say that this was superbly narrated and the respect shown to the subject is quite evident. The digitally reconstituted village was quite moving. Very well done and thank you for remembering.

@KazukoLight

11 ай бұрын

You were a survivor of this massacre? How did you survive sorry I'm just curious since it sounded like the nazi soldiers left no stone unturned by even burning the village down. I am very curious about history and I never heard about this horrible incident and like to hear stories from those of the time if possible. Condolences for your losses!

@riadyl3311

11 ай бұрын

im guessing this is a french tv station production and not the channel owners handiwork

@richardtan9163

11 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂 you’re silly

@Alsatia28

11 ай бұрын

​​​@@KazukoLight he's not a survivor. He lives nearby in Limoges and is familiar with the place.

@danhill6294

11 ай бұрын

​@@riadyl3311 seriously?!

Thank you for reporting about this sad and often forgotten moment of history. I grew up in Limoges, not far from Oradour sur Glane, and I visited the place many times as part of school trips. But more tragically, my grand mother sister died in the church with her 7 year old son, while her husband was killed in the Milord Barn. The pain was still there until my grand mother passed away in 2004. I recommend to everyone to visit the site as it’s an eternal reminder of the horrors of war. There is a bunker, next to the preserved village, where artefacts from that terrible day are exposed, frozen in time, like bullet-riddled baby strollers, watches melted and frozen at the time of the massacre and many more personal and deeply emotional items. Let’s not forget. Peace everyone.

@ruthfischer4177

Жыл бұрын

So sorry 😢. .my dad flew US bomber in Italy. The innocent died too. His parents German immigrants here. ❤

@peopleofconcience

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for sharing this - such horrible things to have carried through your family’s journey, through your own journey. Did the SS mistake the village for another?

@senses70

Жыл бұрын

@@peopleofconcience thank you Paul. Actually, it was bad luck. They first stopped at another village, Vigeois, but as the mayor was fluent in German, they moved on to Oradour… Anyway, they had already set they mind on annihilating a village as one of their officer was killed by the resistance. They started by hanging 98 men and one woman in Tulle. Sadly, as mentioned in this video, this happened all around Europe… War is evil.

@Redhotsaycool123

Жыл бұрын

Muslims do not believe in peace (,read the Quran)..how do you get peace with people who do not want peace with you?...I am listening🤨

@jeffbaxter8770

Жыл бұрын

Please do a similar story video on Liddice.

I visited Oradour with 2 friends about 4 years ago. We walked round almost in silence thinking of the people, families, children who died there. There is no valid justification and never will be. These place and others must be remembered and we must remember them every time an army seeks to invade another country. The actions of the SS were repellent, evil, but sadly the same is still happening today in Europe and around the world. We need to learn.

I was born in Tulle, the town where the 99 men were hanged (one of the 100 escaped jumping into the Correze river but was shot), and I visited Oradour. in somtimes in the late 80s early 90s (did not rememeber, I must have been 6 or 7 years old, the town of tulle organized a reconstitution with mannequin of the hanged, I did not well understood but I still remember it. There is still a memory garden outside of the town, beautiful. My grand uncle fought in the battle of Tulle against the german garrison, and they fled when the SS Div came; he has told me a few time about this before his death. My grand ftaher was working in a field south of oradour the day before the massacre, and he has seen the vehicles passing, everyone hiding because nobody knew what they can do, and my great grandparents were hiding jews. What a sad period, books have been written, but I had already bring my children to visit Oradour after 10 years old, I think "Souviens Toi", remember, is the most important thing there

I visited Oradour more than 30 years ago...I was a kid in my late teens...the experience wasn't lost on me...haunting place...especially the church where so many innocent children were murdered...how could anyone do this?

@powerbite92

Жыл бұрын

because they knew the history books would be rewritten and that they would get away with it.

@wobby1516

Жыл бұрын

Sadly to this day the human race is still capable of these terrible atrocities, one needs only to look at Syria or perhaps one or two of the African countries to name just a few

@arthursteven5601

Жыл бұрын

​@@wobby1516 agreed

@greg9871

Жыл бұрын

The Evil SS the work of the Devil 👿 The perpetrators who were captured and convicted should have been shot! to put these evil pigs in prison was a travesty! 😡

@MaddogKernan

Жыл бұрын

Well its not uncommon, when Reinhard Heydrich the 3rd most powerful man in the nazis was assassinated in Prague, the town of lidice was completely flattened and the children were sent to nazi Germany and the parents of the children were murdered, this crime was a reprisal for the assassination of Heydrich..

The last survivor of the Oradour massacre, Robert Hebras, passed in February of this year, age 97. God rest his soul.

"Down this road on a summer day in 1944, the soldiers came. Nobody lives here now. They stayed only a few hours. When they had gone, the community, which had lived for a thousand years, was dead. This is Oradour-sur-Glane, in France." Laurence Olivier opening the first episode of "The World at War".

@gazza2933

9 ай бұрын

Probably the best series on British television. Ever.

@soarornor

9 ай бұрын

@@gazza2933It really is.

@easterworshipper730

5 ай бұрын

Partisans aré forbbiden in war.

I am French and Oradour is still a painful memory for me, however I support the friendship with German peoples because they made a remarkable collective work on their past that should inspire other folks including French.

@annaassk7138

Жыл бұрын

As it was,even after the war,Germans were bombing,still bombing elsewhere 2nd war may ended forUK but war hadnt ended,as history says tells,what went down,just as despicable,the others involved,dads great city,story untold truths not being told, &wasntGermans who assassinated my g.pa,nor who targeted my dad,forced exile just bc his titles,not bc done wrongs,the hidden stories,abuses still behind the scene,politics lies deceit.Born into it so i born of no country when born a exile,told it,the cruelty of humans still,&humans who dont want the truth be,the story deserves needs to be told.Its amazing how being silenced really is still very real,for the very few. This is such a sad awful story&no lessons learnt,as we watch hear in the now, still there is these murderous vile,in this world,who go in against Ukraine. The innocent civilians&includes many children,being killed for bc its like just a blood sport for some who have no empathy in them, towards other humans.

@AL_THOMAS_777

10 ай бұрын

🙌 👏 🙏 🤝 👍 most of the poor german folks were obedient victims. One innocent single joke about the "Fueher" -> K Z !!!

@muthaship2992

7 ай бұрын

Germany knows it’s past, that’s why they say it out loud, so no other country or people go this route. To bad ruzzia can’t get truths.

I have visited this village , I found it a very sombre experience. Its a time for reflection on those that make war .🇬🇧

I have visited Oradour-Sur-Glane. I arrived early on a Sunday morning, and found myself alone for quite some time, just wandering from house to house, street to street. There is a sign at the entrance that says "SILENCE." Oradour-Sur-Glane is one of the saddest places you will ever visit.

I visited the village today with my wife. God rest their souls.

I visited this village last summer, it's heartbreaking. There are photographs inside the museum of the citizens that were murdered, people who were just living their lives. The village and museum area are well kept, and I'm glad the area is preserved so history can be remembered. Peace to all that died here and to their families.

All the deaths are horrible but I can't even wrap my head around the children. Your content is amazing and valuable.

@BattleGuideVT

Жыл бұрын

Yes, its horrific Phil - thanks for taking the time to watch.

@hariszark7396

Жыл бұрын

I stopped the video at the picture of kids and the mention of kills at the very start....I'll watch it later when I will be ready to hear all that.......... Kids death bleeds my heart....

Having visited this village around ten years ago was an incredibly sobering experience. Standing in the doorway to the church, I cried. I had my young son at my side, and I couldn't imagine the horror that befell these inhabitants.

In 1989 I was touring in France with my wife and three very young children. We were on our way to Limoges when we came across Oradour-sur-Glane, entirely by accident. We did not know anything about this village or its history but we stopped and walked the street of ruins, and learnt what had occurred there in 1944. It was shocking of course, and for our young children a lesson from the past which sadly can still be applied to the present as we see what Russia has done in places like Bucha in Ukraine. As I write this in 2023, I have never forgotten the day in 1989 that we spent walking in the ruined village and visiting the cemetery nearby, and grieving for all those lovely and innocent people whose lives were so suddenly and brutally ended.

There was no bravery in the German actions at Oradour-Sur-Glane, only the villagers showed that. The German soldiers and their leaders, proved how cowardly they were, when faced with unarmed men, woman, children and babies they tortured and murdered the lot, but for a handful that survived. German soldiers replaced bravery, with senseless bastardry. This video brought me to tears.

I knew this story from my French mother, a child during WW2. Thank God for the English Channel and Spitfires.

I visited when I was 14yrs old, I am now 48yrs old yet remember it like yesterday. Especially the pram, the car and the cemetery. I try to tell people about it but they simply don’t understand. Rest in eternal peace sweet people 😢

Another village that suffered this fate was Lidice, Czechoslovakia. You can that story on KZread also.

I am British and like in a a large town near Oradour-Sur-Glane, I have visited this French nation monument one it was so upsetting I have not been back for a second visit. Nothing has been removed.

I lived 25 minutes from Oradour went there many times to show visitors who came to visit me ,and every time just couldn’t believe that men could do such a terrible terrible thing .

The television series The world at war, starts the premier episode in the village and ends the last episode with images of the village. The voice of Laurence Olivier, haunts me fifty years later.

I went there a few years ago .. saw the bicycle and the car and the pram in the church. it was heartbreaking and never to be forgotten. The part that was most hurtful were the names of many villagers on their house and their profession. Made it all so real rather than imaginitive. This was very upsetting but thank you for keeping this alive. Never forget.

Heart breaking. The atrocities. And so many children. Thank you for this memorial video

I really like that you bring up these awful things without making it a sensational thing about it, the story itself is so powerfull! I discovered your channel a couple month ago and really liked it, subscribed immidiately, then forgot about it, saw some clip that came up on my feed yesterday from you. Watched it and wanted to subscribe, because it was so well made and saw that I allready subscribed! Anyway you own me a night of sleep because I more or less watched all your videos which missed and got to sleep about 3:00... This clip is scary and really good, it is something that our schoolchildren ought to watch and understand what happened during WW2! Keep up the good work you're doing! 👍

Never fails to amaze me just how many people back then got away without much of a sentence for their parts in massacres. People who literally murdered thousands of civilians and likely never even saw the inside of a prison, and lived long lives. Unbelievable what people can get away with in times of war.

@matthewbbenton

8 ай бұрын

The main perpetrator of the My Lai massacre, William Calley, lives in Florida, a free man.

@janschkeuditz6065

8 ай бұрын

They got away with as the USA preferred nazis to socialists .

@Great_Lakes_Discus

8 ай бұрын

Well the internet nowadays prevents this from occurring or at the very least it will ensure the culprits won’t go unpunished

@prestigious5s23

8 ай бұрын

@@Great_Lakes_Discus no it doesn't. Look at north Korea, China and the massacres in Africa. That's only a quick example. These massacres are still happening, just not on the same scale.

@Great_Lakes_Discus

8 ай бұрын

@@prestigious5s23 that’s not the same thing, those countries are doing that to their own people, we’re talking about WAR crimes

Went there in 2008. It's an eery experience what was sobering was the cemetery with so many headstones dated 10th June 1944

This video deserves all the recognition it can get. Very well put together, thank you.

@sherlocklucifer1190

Жыл бұрын

No, its just hate.

Very importantly reminds us that the SS Panzer Division responsible were just beasts We should always remember the inhabitants of Oradour-Sur-Glane. A story well told of a Crime against humanity never to be forgotten.

Another of the saddest losses of WWII. Bless them, may they rest in peace. They didn't deserve this.❤

One of the most well made documentary's I have ever seen ! First I have ever heard of this event . Myself a US Army vet of 2 wars & 70 years old . I am sickened by anyone calling themselves a soldier that intentionally kills unarmed civilians . Orders be damned . Events like these are so disgusting it makes me ashamed of my German Ancestry . No soldier should ever follow any such orders & should do everything to stop it .

@bretagnejean2410

7 ай бұрын

Germen were in total panic. In lorient submariner refused to go in uboat and hiddent in the streets city totally destroyed feared to be kill by population.

@bretagnejean2410

7 ай бұрын

"Nobody should follow such order" U know american bomb have kill 200 000 french civil. Big cities have been totally erased of the map by american army.😅 In neutral point of views death is death.

Thankyou for taking the time and trouble to reconstruct this.

@BattleGuideVT

Жыл бұрын

Thank you John, it was a video we really felt needed doing.

I have been there. I will never forget, the silence and the sadness when we walk through that memorial. very moving.

my neighbor Tony Stankewich, served in ww2.his unit was sent to scour france looking for camps. He kept a chest filled with movie film, and old camera, and the projection. also in this case was ammo, grenades, and other items. His son and i took that chess and watched those movies. The cruel medical atrocities that were filmed was unreal. They found the dr's and the camp commander, stripped them, dragged them to the ovens and let the camp deal with them. I was relieved to know that by watching the movie, the healthier prisoners took care of them. The dr's and nurses were all taken back to the hospital and dealt with.. I and my friend will always be haunted by what we have seen, His dad died,and his wife and oldest girl took that chess and foot locker to a friends house where unopened, put into a 6 foot hole and burned.. Their Dad's final wish..

Thank you for keeping this horror alive so that history does not repeat itself.

@firstman9273

Жыл бұрын

You think this does not still happen? It happens in all wars, all of the time.

@edwardjoy3820

Жыл бұрын

Already has, and will continue to happen. We are just as savage as chimps in the jungle. We just have better weapons.

“ The day the soldiers came” see the classic World At War tv series, narrated by Laurence Olivier , about this village..

@anthonysutherland4108

Жыл бұрын

Still my favorite documentary.🇦🇺

@MuhammadIsmail-uq6nc

Жыл бұрын

I think it's clear that the narrator of this video has also watched The World at War series and been influenced by Olivier's narration.

@user-po9sg3ks4p

Жыл бұрын

A total disgrace

@garycyganek1228

Жыл бұрын

Starts with it finishes with it, I’ve been there it’s moving!

@powerbite92

Жыл бұрын

a French man was recently apprehended in Scotland and extradited to France and jail. his purported crime? he didn't just question this narrative so sacred to the French, he had plenty of evidence. So he's in jail awaiting trial.

I visited this village with a Dutch school group about 15 years ago. I expected the teens to not understand the significance of what they were viewing. Instead, the total impact of it all fell down upon my formally laughing students. The ride back to Limoges was in total silence. The horrors of war had seized them all. I will never forget this village and the horrible actions of the Germans.

@jamie0

Жыл бұрын

Dumb take. Next you'll want to expell chimpanzees from the Animal Kingdom.

@henryb160

Жыл бұрын

And did you ever take them to Deir Yassin?

@jameshenderson4876

Жыл бұрын

@@henryb160 Would you like a side of fries with your whataboutism, Adolf?

My wife and I visited about 10 years ago on a chilly December day. We walked through the village then up the lane to the cemetery. I was moved by the inscription on many graves “murdered by nazis”. Made it real for this man from Australia who had never seen such a thing before. Thanks for the video so I could revisit and remember.

@alainproviste3523

11 ай бұрын

This atrocity was not the only massacre committed in France by Nazis. It happened in many other places, like in the village of Maillé, central France, where 124 civilians were killed by another SS unit, on August 25, 1944. More than 2 months after DDAY. Among them many children and women. But unlike Oradour Sur Glane, this village was rebuilt after the war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maill%C3%A9_massacre During 4 years, about 30000 French civilian hostages or captured Maquis fighters had been executed on the spot without any trial, just after their capture. It was not uncommon to shoot 30 or 40 civilian hostages taken at random, for only 1 Nazi officer or soldier killed : kzread.info/dash/bejne/lqeqo5KOm8e4pdo.html

@lois2997

11 ай бұрын

@@alainproviste3523 don’t forget Lidice

Thank you for the video. My nextdoor and his wife passed away a few years ago now, well into their 90's, but they would often come over with bags of garden produce or fruit they'd grown, and share a small tipple. They told me about friends and family they lost in nearby Oradour; the hardships of near starvation, surviving on chestnuts, turnips and Jerusalem artichokes during winter months, and how in our local woods, some French were taken out and shot for denouncing others to the Germans.

An interesting post script, I discovered when I visited a few years ago. The people of the village were awarded, by De Gaulle, a combined Legion de Honeur and a massive bronze plaque that was presented and hung in the new village. After the amnesty of the French SS soldiers convicted of the massacre in the ‘53 trials, the village sent back both the medal and plaque in disgust. Even removing the notation of the medal from the town name. They also withdrew the open invite for French Govt officials, including De Gaulle, to parade with the survivors and relatives annually at the remembrance service in the old village. This lasted to the early 80’s, before accepting the govt back. But they’ve still, as of 2019, asked for the medal, plaque or heading on the town name. It’s an eerie place to visit. People are all quiet and treat it with great respect. Children can’t play there, or make a noise. It’s only very recently that photography in the old village has been allowed. Thank you for a very interested video. It’s very thorough and detailed. 👍

Thank you for this informative and very respectful film. I visited Oradour in the early 1970’s whilst on a touring holiday in France and it left an impression on me that lasts to this day. I managed the walk through the village,stopping respectfully at the varying sites of the barbaric murders, until I arrived at the cemetery. It was the fact that the dates of death on the gravestones were all the same just set me off and I shed many a tear over them.

In the great 1973 BBC documentary. Sir Lawrence Olivier, World at War. 24 parts. The first part starts out with Sir Lawrence Olivier talking about this French town. At the end of the 24th part. The series ends with Sir Lawrence Olivier saying the same words and you hear sad music and see pictures of many of the victims.

_Down this road on a summer day in 1944,_ _the soldiers came. Nobody lives here now._ _They stayed only a few hours. When they had gone,_ _a community, which had lived for a thousand years, was dead._ _This is Oradour-sur-Glane in France._ _The day the soldiers came the people were gathered together._ _The men were taken to garages and barns,_ _the women and children were led down this road,_ _and they were driven into this church._ _Here, they heard the firing as their men were shot._ _Then they were killed, too. A few weeks later_ _many of those who had done the killing_ _were themselves dead...in battle._ _They never rebuilt Oradour. Its ruins are a memorial._ _Its martyrdom stands for thousand upon thousand of other martyrdoms_ _in Poland, in Russia, in Burma, in China..._ _In a World at War._ *THE WORLD AT WAR - 1973*

@atpg5

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Ryan. I heard Sir Laurence Olivier voice speaking these words the entire time I watched this documentary - then I came to add what you had already done. Thank you again. The World at War, Season 1, episode 1.

@montyzumazoom1337

11 ай бұрын

I’ve got the complete set of the series. The opening statement is a very powerful reminder of the atrocities of war.

@SenzoTanaka

9 ай бұрын

The TV series that was made before the iron curtain fell. Which is why some it was inaccurate.

I visited here and it was one of those places that stayed with me. After I left. Walking around the village was truly a sad experience. Strangely there were no bird sounds just a silence. Heartbreaking memorial to the cruelty of war and those poor villagers mindlessly murdered. May their souls rest in peace.

Oh man, my gf and I stumbled upon this place in 93, looking for a campsite. We checked it out and we were the only people there, late afternoon in June. It was haunting. The pamphlet we were given said Souvenir-Vous. We still have it.

@dominiqueviari5261

Жыл бұрын

Hello, I have been there several times, I lived maybe 50 miles from Oradour, now I live in Normandy. Of all the messages written on this page, you wrote the most accurate word to describe the atmosphere there: HAUNTING. When you walk in those streets, you can hardly talk...I do not have the words to describe it, I felt not only sad, but also really scared. The pamphlet actually says "Souvenez-vous", which means "Remember".

@user-qy6yn4kl8d

Жыл бұрын

It looked like a fruit-stand on the side of the road, only next to a fenced area I thought might be a campsite. The bored girl in the stand mentioned one nearby and since we had already stopped, we went in. We didn't expect a Nazi atrocity. Not in that part of Europe. It was a lonely feeling. When we left the stand had closed and the sun was low. We found the campsite and didn't say much until the next day.

Thank you for sharing this. My grandmother grew up in a town very close by to where this happened as well as born in a town that was even closer (Azerables).They never forget this and it just made the people more dedicated to helping the resistance. She was only 9 when this happened.

What an absolute tragedy. I hope to visit there one day and pay my respects.

@sosteve9113

9 ай бұрын

It is breath taking ,I visited it on a road trip

I visited this village a few years ago. This documentary is outstanding in bringing it to life. I left the site with a few questions, you just answered them all. Thank you.

My wife and I visited Oradour Sur Glane some 5 years ago. It was heartbreaking we as visitors reading the story whilst walking the streets we could not comprehend the sheer brutality that went on that day, we will never forget that day.

@dudebro3250

11 ай бұрын

It reminds me of the hellstorm documentary. There were terrible atrocities in that as well.

Here in greece we have ours oradour sur glan. The name of village is kalavrita.A BIG MASSACRE .in 13 december 1943 the 117 gebirgsjager division burned kalavrita and other 26 villages.1300 greeks inhabidans massacred with mg 42 machine gun on a hill out of the kalavrita and in the other villages in the orthodox churches with mp 40 submachineguns and grenades by the german beasts..all the male population from 12 -80 years old.you can find it if you google it.KALAVRITA MASSACRE

@VasaSavanovic

Жыл бұрын

Ja sam Srbin i čitao i gledao o kalavriji

@mikiszezas2731

Жыл бұрын

@@VasaSavanovic write it in english.we dont understund

@VasaSavanovic

Жыл бұрын

@@mikiszezas2731 how it possible that German nation don't pay full prize for inaction in ww2 and survive. That is prof that vikings have intention vith Russia

i visited this village with my family many years ago now, but the impact of walking the streets, seeing items standing or hanging on walls, in many cases the names of the family that live in houses attached to burnt walls, the sadness of walking the church yard, but most of all you could still smell burning throughout the village, that experience never left my family or myself, everybody should make an effort to go see for themselves, in wars NO body wins

Visited the village in July this year. I found it to be a desperately sad place, and the massacre was difficult to understand. The new village really does convey a feeling of a new beginning. Excellent film.

I came across Oradour by accident l was travelling by car driving up from the South to look at a property near Limoges, l knew nothing of the history, but as l approached l honestly felt a real chill go right through me, a sixth sense if you will or foreboding of something terrible, on this warm summer afternoon, l actually felt it before l saw it, l didn’t realise what it was but l knew l had been affected by something and stopped and wrote down the name intending to look up later this place, l hardly stopped a minute by the side of the road but will remember it as l still do for the rest of my life that eerie feeling. Later that evening l telephoned my wife and told her l had this weird experience of something dreadful (still ignorant) as my first thought something terrible may have happed at home - lm not normally a person to get these awful premonitions

Excellent work. Brilliant to see the village as it would have been. I've been to Oradour and it was a sobering visit.

I’ve actually visited there, it’s so chilling and there are no birds, no noise at all. It’s like the universe mourns it too.

I just visited the village today, it was a surreal vision of total destruction. As I walked through the village just before getting to the church I saw a building with the name Mercier on it. That is my family name but know nothing of the heritage in France. There were a few Merciers that died that day. Unreal.

Ive been to Oradour Its really creepy especially the cemetery with glass coffins containing bone fragments of the victims .

I'm American and 61. I watched the World at War series all the time in my teens. I have always been interested in history and that show was impactful. . I also speak French and have been to France/Europe 3 times in my life. I spent 3 months there in 1983 but for some reason I didn't get to the beaches at Normandie until my last visit in 2018. (Altho I was at Mont St Michel) I do not remember the details of the WaW series, but this fall I plan to go to France with my friend of 40+ years who grew up in Paris and moved to the US at age 22. I will ask her if we can go here. I would like to, to pay respects. Such a sad story of the cruelty of mankind. Thank you for the very well done video.

@sextempiric7137

Жыл бұрын

You advertising yourself or?

@danceteachermom

Жыл бұрын

@@sextempiric7137 haha. I lost my dance studio to covid and have lots of time on my hands. Entertaining myself by watching KZread. Sorry for infringing on your life! Lol

I also visited the town 28 years ago. The silence and the way things are frozen in time profoundly shakes the soul. The scale of the indiscriminate inhumanity, to destroy an entire town in a few hours, is so distressing. The drive home was silent and I have never forgotten that day.

I visited my parents in France, many years ago and my Father took me to the village. Although the village is in ruins, you can still get a feel of the tragedy that happened. It certainly tugs at the heart strings.

It’s so important for people to see what “civilized” society is capable of, not only a few generations ago. These poor people were just trying to live their lives, and were rounded up by monsters, and killed. These things still happen even today, and go unreported……

I didn’t even know about this. I’ve read about Lidice and Ležáky in Czechoslovakia. What a horrible event. God rest their souls✝️

I live in rural eastern France, five minute away from my town is another one where the SS locked a hundred people in the church before setting it on fire, it happened after D DAY with German forces leaving France and going full scorched earth. In my hometown they blew up 2 bridges and the railway over the river to stop allied advance, nothing was burnt to the ground and no civilians were rounded up as the germans present were not SS. The mayor from back then begged the Germans not to destroy anything and spare the people, the commander of the garrisson replied he wouldn't do it anyway as it would be pointless and horrible, he had apparently seen the other side of scorched eath on the eastern front.

Having visited the village myself i can safely say the atmosphere when you're walking around is strangely peaceful and eerily quiet, the day I was there there must have been a good 200 people there and nobody spoke with raised voices or any anger all the people that were there were joined by a respectful silence...... I urge you if you ever get the chance to go and visit please do and as it says as you enter the village REMEMBER

@NotOnDrugs

10 ай бұрын

Definitely added this on my list of places to go, on my trip later this year. The SS were some sick fucks, but, somehow, I'm drawn to the history.

The sad truth? The world still refuses to learn from such horrific moments in history. May all the men, women and children of Oradour-Sur-Glane rest in peace...

@dngriffiths8105

Жыл бұрын

Indeed. As we see with Russia's daily war crimes in Ukraine.

@phoenix51472

Жыл бұрын

​@@dngriffiths8105 Thats why the world views the West's moral posturing with contempt. While you do all the moral outrage on Ukraine, we remember Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Vietnam, not to forget the dozen odd murderous dictators you propped up.

@bryanme5771

Жыл бұрын

@@NewChannel-wi7vj Gee, let's see. Millions of lives lost during WWI and WWII should have been incentive enough to "learn". Yes, it's obvious such atrocities aren't new. And mankind has shown over and over again, it's inability to learn from the past. Unfortunately, history repeats itself, too often for the worse...

@senses70

Жыл бұрын

@@NewChannel-wi7vj Your comment definitely does not enlighten anyone and is certainly does not show the good side of the human race. There are more nice people than haters on this planet. Some create wars but many more learn and work toward peace.

"Down this road on a summer day in 1944, the soldiers came. Nobody lives here now. They stayed only a few hours. When they had gone, a community, which had lived for a thousand years, was dead. This is Oradour-Sur-Glane, in France. The day the soldiers came, the people were gathered together. The men were taken to garages and barns, the women and children were led down this road, and they were driven into this church. Here, they heard the firing as their men were shot. Then they were killed too. A few weeks later, many of those who had done the killing were themselves dead, in battle. They never rebuilt Oradour. Its ruins are a memorial. Its martyrdom stands for thousands upon thousands of other martyrdoms in Poland, in Russia, in Burma, China, in a world at war."

@arthursteven5601

Жыл бұрын

Very very moving ❤

My father fought 5 years against this tyranny, he had great respect for the German soldier but hated the SS vehemently. After helping liberate a concentration camp ran by the SS housing Polish, jewish and other races had no tolerance for them. When I held his hand on his deathbed these poor souls who he helped was STILL on his mind. For me he was the Tallest tree in the Forrest 🍁74+hunter Yorkshire expat

I went to France in 86 and studied French at a chateau called Rambouillet outside Paris. The lady teaching French brought me dozens of French magazines detailing the massacre. She made it clear that she would never forgive or forget.

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7 ай бұрын

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A great video! Thank you for making it. I've seen the footage of the aftermath of the massacre and it is haunting.

@BattleGuideVT

Жыл бұрын

Thabks very much Brad, glad you enjoyed it! DH

@OTDMilitaryHistory

Жыл бұрын

@@BattleGuideVT It's very well done! I hope to see more like this on the channel. This something I'd love to be able to do on my channel some day.

When I visited here there were two buses full of school children also there besides many families, but as you walked around had you closed your eyes you would have thought you were there alone, no one made a noise, the place itself made you want to be quiet and respectful, even the children felt it. Everyone should visit this place.

It is the most haunting and moving place which I have ever visited . May they continue to Rest in Peace .

According to the narative writen when you enter Oradour, things where a lot more vicious than this story tells. In the church, the SS poured petrol by the windows and hand grenades to make the bodies unrecognisable. The men, where to stand on street corners then shot only in the legs. While they where partially immobilised laying down, then also, petrol was poured over them and lit to burn them alive. That is the more accurate sad reality of Oradour sur Glane ! Leaving the parking, passing by the tunnel leading to the town, there are pictures and describtives of what did happen there. I saw there a lot of people starting to cry before even entering the town.

Went several times as a kid. We had a house nearby. It’s a haunting place. Going into the church and seeing the bullet holes in the walls. Unreal

A brilliant video As a french citizen it broke my heart to see what happened to my beautiful country and the inhabitants of this village. Hoping somehow that lessons are learnt from all this...😢

@slightlyconfused876

8 ай бұрын

Sadly they have not been.

@capoislamort100

8 ай бұрын

Your “beautiful country” committed atrocities like this all over their African colonies as well as elsewhere, you guys got off lightly if anything……just saying.

@isabellesmith5253

8 ай бұрын

@capoislamort100 I don t deny it but in my heart it is a beautiful country.....I live in the uk...it also has lot to answer for as do many others

@bazmondo

7 ай бұрын

​@@capoislamort100and now it's the Africans committing atrocities in Africa. Actually, it's always been that way.

My wife and I visited here in 2017 on a trip to France. I was at once both appalled and fascinated by the scene. My wife could barely speak. Strangely enough the day we were there the was a school group, who, sadly, maybe didn't understand the gravity of the village, and spend more time laughing and on their phones! It made a surreal place even more sad. Every 10th of June I remember the village and those poor souls, and remind myself that cruelly today, this is happening STILL around the world. Thank you for creating and sharing.

@rubberduckyconvoy2723

6 ай бұрын

It killed me. "spent more time laughing" Stupid parents who give to children a stupidphones.

@serpentines6356

6 ай бұрын

Yes. Adults need to be adults, and make those kids put away their damn phones.

a brilliant and clear explanation of the horrific events which took place here.

@BattleGuideVT

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Tony, glad you enjoyed it.

Wonderful presentation and re-telling of this savage and brutal slaughter. From research I did myself after visiting Oradour-sur-glane, it seems likely that Helmut Kampfe was captured on 9th June and, along with some other SS officers, was burned alive in the back of a German field ambulance. Diekmann, a personal friend of Kampfe came across his remains on the morning of the 10th June, outside the village. Some speculate this is why he locked the women and children inside the church before setting it alight, as retribution. Either way, I'll never forget my visit to the village. It's shocking and stark. Excellent job with your video.

I travelled from north belguim to see this, and was shocking.

I visited the village last year, I can not put into words the feelings I felt, the word’s Remember is all I can find and Sorry.

Thank you for this video - I can truly imagine that it was hard to make. I was there with my class in 1981. Walking through this village can't be explained by words. I will never forget the doctor's car- at the same spot where he was stopped. Remember! xxx 🙏

Watched the World at War series in the seventies and was gripped by the introduction from Sir Lawrence Olivier's disturbing description. I had for years after a very strong desire to visit the village to pay my respects. I went five years ago. Knowing something of its history it was disturbing and incredibly sad to walk amongst the ruins. Heartbreaking. In the church I imagined the screams of the innocent victims fighting for their lives. I remember saying 'How could people who call themselves human beings do such a wicked thing'. Walked around recording as much as possible. What an education. The beautiful cemetery with all the portraits of young, old, babies, whole families buried together made me very emotional. The museum is excellent and staff very courteous. Respect to the French authorities for the villages' preservation. Remember.

Heart-breaking! may they rest in piece each and every one of them!

Myself and my wife walked the whole town about 12 years ago so quiet and surreal never heard a bird singing so sad RIP all of those poor souls 😢

A superb presentation of a nauseatingly sad and downright evil event in history…

I visited this village in 2008 and to this day i feel the sadness which emanates from every house, every building and especially the church. It really was a moving and spiritual experience which I will never forget. RIP all the victims of this atrocious act.

THE DEEPEST reconnaissance for this work. I am 85 and knew it all in Normandy. THANK YOU REGARDS

@BattleGuideVT

8 ай бұрын

You are welcome.

@davidoneill9244

7 ай бұрын

Surely if you are 85 (as I am) you could not have "known it all" in Normandy other than to see newspapers & newsreels. @@BattleGuideVT

I drove through, but it was too much to bear to stop and visit. I also drove past Lidice in Czechoslovakia, in 1964, on the way back from Prague. A similar event happened there. The Nazis were not punished enough, a hanging was too swift and humane, compared with what they dished out.

A nicely filmed documentary of the horrific SS deed, they were the worst, because they did not shy away from killing women and children. Here in Bohemia, a similar fate befell the villages of Lidice and Ležáky. It was terrible and one does not even want to imagine it, but we must not forget!

I have been there. Watching this almost had me in tears again.

Thank you for such an informative video. I have read and continue to read about WW2 and am still amazed at the untold stories finally being told. As for any who find excuses for Nazi brutality, we all must choose either good or evil. I suppose our choice becomes known by what we choose to excuse.

@MrNiceGuyHistory

7 ай бұрын

What really stands out about this atrocity over the ones used by the excusers is that there was no military objective behind this slaughter. This wasn't collateral damage or a misguided military decision. This can't be explained by orders from above.

@easterworshipper730

7 ай бұрын

Partisans aré forbbiden in the war, as for any who find excuses for maqui brutality, we all must choose good or evil, i suppose our choice becomes known by what we choose to excuse.

What is additionally horrible is that the town had done nothing in the way of an ambush or sabotage. It was just an easy target for an SS unit to make an example but given the breakdown of communications in the war compared to today, only the French Resistance heard of this massacre. Makes me want to shove this into the face of all the members of the Canadian Parliament who gave two standing ovations to a Ukrainian member of Waffen-SS Galicia Division.

@billfarley9167

3 күн бұрын

For sure.

These are so great. Well researched and presented. Please continue to make them. They really make history come alive. Thank you.

@BattleGuideVT

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much Jimmy, if people keep watching we will keep making them for sure.

Thank you very much for bringing this village to life once again. The horrors experienced by the people of Oradour-sur-Glane are hard to bear even today. Even if a clash with the French resistance was the motive for the tragedy, it remains a cowardly and unforgivable act by vengeful German soldiers who were nothing but murderers. All honour to the mothers of Oradour!

I have visited this place. It's haunting to say the least. It really affected me and I still remember how I felt at the time.

Thank you for your time and dedication in the making of this video to educate and document the horrific actions of that day back in 1944. Rest in peace Oradour-Sur-Glane. 🙏🏻