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Oradour sur Glane (commune)

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Country
  
France

Department
  
Haute-Vienne

Intercommunality
  
Vienne Glane

Area
  
38.16 km²

Arrondissement
  
Rochechouart

Region
  
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Canton
  
Saint-Junien-Est

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Population
  
2,222 (2008)

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Weather
  
8°C, Wind SE at 13 km/h, 69% Humidity

Oradour-sur-Glane (Occitan: Orador de Glana) is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in west-central France, and the name of main village within the commune.

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History

The original village was destroyed on 10 June 1944, when 642 of its inhabitants, including women and children, were massacred by a Nazi German Waffen-SS company. A new village was built after the war on a nearby site, but on the orders of the then French president, Charles de Gaulle, the original has been maintained as a permanent memorial. The Centre de la mémoire d'Oradour museum is beside the historic site.

Personalities linked to the commune

  • Denise Bardet (June 10, 1920 – June 10, 1944): teacher and author of the Cahiers de Jeunesse by Denise Bardet.
  • René Regaudie (1908–2000), a French politician, was at the work of conservation and reconstruction of Oradour-sur-Glane.
  • Albert Chaminade (1912–2009), resistant, player of CSP Limoges, and basketball leader, politician, he lost a cousin to the massacre of Oradour.
  • Robert Hébras, born on June 29, 1925 in Oradour-sur-Glane, is one of the six survivors of the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre on June 10, 1944, which became a symbol in postwar France National atrocities.
  • Camille Senon, born June 5, 1925 in Oradour-sur-Glane, is a French trade unionist.
  • Jean-Claude Peyronnet, (1940–), French politician, creator of the Center of the memory of Oradour-sur-Glane.
  • Sébastien Puygrenier, begins football at US Oradour-sur-Glane where his father and his uncles played
  • Didier Barbelivien, French singer-songwriter, pays tribute to Oradour by his song Les amants d'Oradour.

    • Geography

    The municipality borders with Javerdat, Cieux, Peyrilhac, Veyrac, Saint-Victurnien and Saint-Brice-sur-Vienne.

    References

    Oradour-sur-Glane (commune) Wikipedia
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