Detail View: SHIMMER: Village Martyr
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Title:
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Village Martyr
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Creation Date:
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1946
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Image Date:
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2011
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Period:
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20th century ; 21st century
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Location:
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Oradour-sur-Glane, Haute-Vienne
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Country:
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FRANCE
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Terms:
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Death tourism
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Image ID:
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11-2124
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Description:
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Exterior detail: . Plaques behind the monument listing the dead. On June 10, 2011 642 inhabitants of this village by rounded up and killed by a German Waffen-SS Detachment. Their bodies were burned and all the houses in the village destroyed. In 1946 General de Gaulle declared the site should be preserved as a memorial. A new village was built to the immediate north-west of the village. The local cemetery contains a memorial to the massacre and two glass-topped 'coffins' containing ash and fire-damaged fragments including bone. A crypt under the grass space in front of the cemetery houses displays of fire-damaged relics from the village. In 1999 the Centre de la Mémoire was built south-west of the village through which visitors pass to enter the site. This visitor centre provides information on the background to the atrocity and is sited in a hollow to lessen visual impact.
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Rights:
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© Sheffield Hallam University
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Permissions:
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For educational use only. This image may be used in print or digital materials provided that full acknowledgment is given, expressed as follows: " © < insert details from the 'Rights' field >. Photographed by < insert details from the 'Photographed by' field >."
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Related Information:
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Oradour-sur-Glane. For more information see also < http://www.oradour.org > .
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Photographed by:
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Dave Ball
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Subject Heading:
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities
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Subject Heading:
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Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre, 1944
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Subject Heading:
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Memorials -- France
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Subject Heading:
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Monuments -- France
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Subject Heading:
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Signs and signboards -- France
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Subject Heading:
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Dark tourism
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