Has any one been to Oradour

[richard]

Has any one been to Oradour-sur-Glane Im just panning out the final bits of out Bike tour this year, we are goint through Limoges and have been told to visit this place It has been left as is the day it was distroyed by the SS in 1944... Looks intresting


Any one help



R&L

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[Codbasher]

My Mother in Law $%3un has been, said it was a spooky place, it has been left exactly as it was when the germans shot the whole village (shot them all in the church I think), even the old cars have been left where they stood on that day, rusting now of course, but it is a place the wife and I want to visit, along with Auswitch (sp) Not ghoulish, just find it hard to comprehend what went on in these places, and want to feel the atmoshere for myself.

 

[ianrobbo1]

sounds like a "different" day out, :bow:
I find this sort of thing fascinating, the nearest to this sort of "left as it was" places Ive been to was Arnhem,
until you actually walk around the " battlefields," and then the cemetery's, I don't think you can really grasp the fact that so many people died in such a short time, and for what,??to preserve our rights to be English and independent,!! :bow:

I suppose this may be the reason I feel so bitter about the way things are going in this country today, all these "Johnny come latelys",!! how many of them would give up their lives for this country,?? not many,!! cos they left their own country's when times got hard, so I cant see many fighting for this one, though its fine for them to moan and whine about us and our laws,

sorry for getting "carried away" :blush:

 

[Rolfy Dave]

Not been to Oradour-sur-Glane

... but have been to Belsen, and that was truly eeerie.....

Very little grass grew there, and it seemed like the birds didnt sing round the place...The lack of grass we could understand, due to the excess of natural fertilizers in the ground from the the buried ashes of the victims, but the birds ?????? (cue Twighlight zone music)

Just plain spooky...

A truly memorable place to visit...

Thought provokingly,

Rolfy
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[richard]

Thanks for your input.. In the mean time having received some very in depth PMs I'm def going to plan it in i did not realize what the significance of the place, done some research on the net now. It looks like the SS rounded up and then separated the men from the women and children and then proceeded to slaughter the men in the barn and then burn the women and children in the church.. Very Very heavy stuff...It is literally on route for us this year so I have planed it in to go and look & some history all be it a bit gruesome..


Thanks

Richard & Lindz

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[linzi]

Thanks all My friend Romaine first old us about this place, and encouraged us to go .. she said it is one of those places one "should" visit in your lifetime.

 

[tichxx]

Oradour

Went there last year. If you really want to know just what happened there, give yourself plenty of time to get around the whole place.

Along with some of the other WW2 places I've visited this is one disturbing place. And it'll really make you think

Not a bad thing thing me thinks!!!!

 

[Trev]

Oradour-sur-Glane

Very quiet. Very still. Intensely atmospheric. As others have said, the French left it almost as it was the day that the SS moved out. Probably best seen on a dank, rainy day. Not a cheerful spot.

Having said that, it was worth the trip. Whilst you're there (and in a chipper mood) check out the cemetary next door. The French have (used to have?) a custom of attaching a small photo to the grave - when you see so many pictures of children you get some idea of what a crock of shit it must have been...

 

[roXXo]

We were there 2 years ago

And as said above it is a strange, poignant place. Very interesting and thought provoking. For me the anticipation of going, after reading about Oradour, turned out to be better than the actual visit. It was raining when we were there which made the atmosphere even more depressing. I was a bit disappointed but canot really say why. I had the whole gamut of feelings from total despair to infinite hope. Yes it is imperrative that we have these types of museums and memorials and they are worth a visit but they are not the most enjoyable attractions while on holiday. If you know what I mean.

 

[mal 97]

i was stationed in germany for a few years and visited most of the concentration camps searching for some answers. these are very eerie places indeed with no grass and no birds around. mounds of earth here and there with signs saying 50,000 people laying here, but they dont know how many for sure. went to the hospital where they tried putting animals heads on human body's just for fun. have we learned any lessons? have we @^*k. i still havent found any answers. went to arnhem and nijmegen with parra wings on my uniform and got treat like a king. these people dont forget but can we forgive!!?