Massacre At Oradour: France, 1944; Coming To Grips With Terror - Brossura

Fouche, Jean-Jacques; Sices, David; Atkinson, James B.

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ISBN 10: 0875806015 ISBN 13: 9780875806013

Casa editrice: Northern Illinois Univ Pr, 2004

Riassunto

Near the end of World War II, four days after Allied armies landed at Normandy, a unit of Waffen SS troops en route to that front surrounded the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane and, without warning, systematically massacred its citizens. The Nazi soldiers herded women and children into the village church, machine-gunned them, and set the church on fire while some were still alive. The men were taken to barns in groups, where they were shot. Afterward, the Nazis plundered the village and burned it to the ground. Altogether, more than 640 men, women, and children died in Oradour that day.

Jean-Jacques Fouché explores the massacre from several points of view—religious or ethnic differences, the background and training of the Nazi soldiers, and German suspicions that villagers sheltered Jewish and Spanish anti-fascist refugees. Probing the most shocking massacre in World War II France, he shows how memory affects our understanding of the past.

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L'autore:

Jean-Jacques Fouché, the first director of the Centre de la Mémoire d'Oradour, recently completed a new book on Oradour and justice. Currently he is working on radio and television documentatires on the tragedy of Oradour and memory.

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Near the end of World War II, four days after Allied armies landed at Normandy, a unit of Waffen SS tro en route to the front surrounded the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane and, without warning, systematically massacred its citizens. In an effort to come to grips with this tragedy, Jean-Jacques Fouche explores the massacre from several points of view - religious or ethnic differences, the background and training of the Nazi soldiers, and suspicions that villagers sheltered Jewish and Spanish anti-fascist refugee Expertly translated by David Sices and James B. Atkinson, Massacre at Oradour, France, 1944 offers the most comprehensive and well-documented account of the massacre, its aftermath, and the ways in which its memory affects our understanding of and response to terror.

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• Editore: Northern Illinois Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0875806015
• ISBN 13: 9780875806013
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 270