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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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• Full title: Massacre at Oradour, France, 1944
• Author: Jean-Jacques Fouche
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 287
• EAN: 9780875806013
• ISBN: 0875806015
• ID: 01211021
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Weight: 358 g
• Dimensions: 215 × 161 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. November 2004

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