Tag Archives: Oradour-sur-Glane

Eight Years On…

Posted on 11/02/2018 by

  A little celebration is in order. Life on La Lune will be eight years old on Wednesday, which just happens to coincide with Valentine’s Day. Since February 2010, I’ve published some 586 posts, learned an awful lot about France … Continue reading →

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Death of a Village: Oradour-sur-Glane

Posted on 02/07/2016 by

I wasn’t sure if I should write about this at all. Visiting Oradour-sur-Glane near Limoges this week, I felt like a voyeur. The 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich slaughtered 642 people and torched the village on 10th June 1944, … Continue reading →

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