Oradour-sur-Glane

The original village was destroyed on 10 June 1944, four days after D-Day, when 642 of its inhabitants, including 207 children, were massacred by a company of troops belonging to the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich, a Waffen-SS unit of the military forces of Nazi Germany.^[4][5] There were only 10 survivors, who escaped by pretending to be dead.^[5] SS Sturmbannführer Adolf Diekmann, the commanding officer of the Der Führer regiment of the Das Reich division, had wanted to destroy another French town, Oradour-sur-Vayres, whose people were said to be providing food and shelter to the Maquis, but had taken a wrong turn on the road, which led him and his men to Oradour-sur-Glane, whose people had never supported the Maquis.^[6]

A new village was built after the war on a nearby site, but on the orders of President Charles de Gaulle, the original has been maintained as a permanent memorial.^[4] The Center de la mémoire d'Oradour museum is situated adjacent to the historic site.^[7]

The massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane bookends the documentary series The World at War, the first and final episodes showing images of the ruined village.^{[citation needed]}

• Robert Hébras (29 June 1925 – 11 February 2023) was one of the six survivors of the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre on 10 June 1944.
• Jean-Claude Peyronnet (born 1940), French politician and creator of the Centre of the Memory of Oradour-sur-Glane.
• Sébastien Puygrenier (born 1982) began his football career at US Oradour-sur-Glane, where his father and his uncles had played.
• Didier Barbelivien (born 1954), a French singer-songwriter, paid tribute to Oradour in his song "Les amants d'Oradour".

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

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  Map showing modern and former village
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  Details of rails and catenary of the tramway.
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  Post office

• Lidice, a Czech village destroyed by Nazi forces in 1942