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- Title
Hitler's Empire.
- Authors
Stargardt, Nicholas
- Abstract
On June 10th, 1944, men of Second Waffen SS Panzer Division, Das Reich, paused on their route to Normandy through the Haute-Vienne to carry out a reprisal action for the capture of a single German officer by the French Resistance, the Maquis. They surrounded the small town of Oradour-sur-Glane, shooting and burning to death all the inhabitants they could find — 190 men, 247 women and 205 children. The SS looted and burned the town, leaving its ruins as a warning. And so it has remained, the most infamous monument to the German occupation of France.
- Subjects
HITLER'S Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe (Book); MAZOWER, Mark; WORLD War II -- Occupied territories; NONFICTION
- Publication
History Today, 2008, Vol 58, Issue 12, p68
- ISSN
0018-2753
- Publication type
Book Review