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Lost/Untold stories from WWII
Posted on 10/17/19 at 2:40 pm
Posted on 10/17/19 at 2:40 pm
Pretty interesting read.
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I had no idea this happened. The remnants of the massacred village still stand in their unaltered forms.
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Oradour-Sur-Glane, the Town That Died Forever.
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The Allied invasion of Normandy instigated widespread activity by the French Resistance, including the kidnapping and killing of Helmut Kampfe, a major in the Waffen-SS Das Reich. In the wake of Kampfe's death, a battalion of the regiment known as Der Fuhrer Regiment made its way to the small village of Oradour-Sur-Glane.
Commander Adolf Diekmann ordered the town sealed off, the men locked in barns and the women and children confined to the church. It's unknown why the town was selected; possibly due to proximity to the regiment, or because Germans knew it was defenseless.
Diekmann ordered his unit to begin shooting. Residents were incapacitated by shots to the legs, then the barns and church were doused with gasoline and ignited. Hundreds of villagers died, which was nearly all the residents of the area. Many of the SS present were Alsatian French nationals impressed into the German military, and almost all participants escaped punishment. After the war, French president Charles De Gaulle declared the village would never be restored, and left as a reminder of the brutal Nazi occupation.
I had no idea this happened. The remnants of the massacred village still stand in their unaltered forms.
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Posted on 10/17/19 at 2:43 pm to VolsOut4Harambe
There was a WWII documentary from the 70s that opened with the story of that town but they didn't mention the part about the major being kidnapped.
The World at War Documentary (1973)
The World at War Documentary (1973)
This post was edited on 10/17/19 at 2:46 pm
Posted on 10/17/19 at 2:54 pm to VolsOut4Harambe
I thought that story was sort of well known. Next time I go back to France, that’s definitely on the itinerary
Posted on 10/17/19 at 3:00 pm to VolsOut4Harambe
It's interesting how under the popular culture radar the Malmedy Massacre is.
I've only seen it depicted in one Hollywood film: The Battle of The Bulge (1965)
I've only seen it depicted in one Hollywood film: The Battle of The Bulge (1965)
Posted on 10/17/19 at 3:09 pm to Kafka
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It's interesting how under the popular culture radar the Malmedy Massacre is.
I've only seen it depicted in one Hollywood film: The Battle of The Bulge (1965)
They don't teach fact/event history anymore, but favor movement/perspective history. Social Studies is now Social Engineering.
Posted on 10/17/19 at 3:21 pm to VolsOut4Harambe
6 German saboteurs were executed in the electric chair in Washington DC in August 1942.
Operation Pastorius
Operation Pastorius
Posted on 10/17/19 at 3:32 pm to VolsOut4Harambe
I've expected to see this in a movie for a while, but apparently, she's gone relatively unnoticed.
Posted on 10/17/19 at 3:37 pm to Kafka
Same thing happened in Czechoslovakia when Heydrich was murdered.
This post was edited on 10/17/19 at 8:02 pm
Posted on 10/17/19 at 3:40 pm to VolsOut4Harambe
Everyone knows about Anne Frank's diary, but few know about the diary of Tatyana Nikolayevna Savicheva. She was fourteen years old when she died of tuberculosis in July 1944 after surviving the Siege of Leningrad. She kept her diary during the siege, writing about day-to-day life, and recording the deaths of her family members one by one.
Posted on 10/17/19 at 3:41 pm to VolsOut4Harambe
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Lost/Untold stories from WWII
How is this possible? People never stop talking about WW2
This post was edited on 10/17/19 at 3:42 pm
Posted on 10/17/19 at 4:35 pm to weagle99
There are still large areas of France around Verdun that are still closed off to the public because of unexploded ordnance and chemical weapons ("Red Zone").
Posted on 10/17/19 at 4:38 pm to VolsOut4Harambe
If it’s untold, how the frick am I reading it
Posted on 10/17/19 at 5:00 pm to SoFla Tideroller
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There are still large areas of France around Verdun that are still closed off to the public because of unexploded ordnance and chemical weapons ("Red Zone").
That might be WW1
Posted on 10/17/19 at 5:20 pm to VolsOut4Harambe
my grandfather was a gunner on a turret, someone threw a grenade into the area and everyone around him was killed except for him, he got caught with shrapnel
2 purple hearts
2 purple hearts
Posted on 10/17/19 at 5:23 pm to VolsOut4Harambe
Posted on 10/17/19 at 5:28 pm to Jim Rockford
Kinda like Iron Eyes Cody played injun in movies and the crying ad for littering. He was Italian - no Native American at all.
Posted on 10/17/19 at 5:49 pm to The Mick
quote:from Gueydan!
Kinda like Iron Eyes Cody played injun in movies and the crying ad for littering. He was Italian
Posted on 10/17/19 at 6:17 pm to VolsOut4Harambe
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The remnants of the massacred village still stand in their unaltered forms
But this is not as bad as Donald Trump
Signed,
Democrats
Posted on 10/17/19 at 7:17 pm to tigerfootball10
Torpedo 8 at Midway....
every plane shot down, one survivor!!!!
every plane shot down, one survivor!!!!
Posted on 10/17/19 at 7:21 pm to vl100butch
quote:is singing Over There with the lads still your fave war memory ?
vl100butch
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