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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11-2126
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Description:
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Exterior detail: on the corner of the wall behind the monument is this text inditing 2nd SS Division, 'Das Reich', commanded by General Lammerding with this crime. 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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Dark tourism
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