Today we had a 3 hour drive to Oradour-sur-Glane.By the time we missed a couple of “her” small road shortcuts and were redirected onto other small roads (still had her set to no motorways), it was well over 3 hours, not counting a coffee stop somewhere.
On 10 June 1944, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Nazi-occupied France was destroyed, when 642 of its inhabitants, including women and children, were massacred by a Nazi Waffen-SS company. The whole village was then burnt and all that remains are stone walls and steel beams, cars etc. A new village was built nearby after the war, but French president Charles de Gaulle ordered the original maintained as a permanent memorial and museum. Wikipedia seems to have a good account of the happenings. Click here. It was a horrible, cruel, vindictive incident and to see the extent of the destroyed village is quite disturbing. Again, photos don’t do the recording justice.
This is a photo from our new drone showing part of the destroyed village. Not really, but it would be fun to have one sometimes. It’s a photo from the internet.
It was good that we only had a half hour drive to get to the Inter-Hotel Arion. Our glass or so of wine when we get to our “home” each night is very relaxing, probably more psychologically rather than intoxicatingly. Is there such a word?
Very sobering to see such images, let alone be there to feel the atmosphere.
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