Possibly attributable Admiral John Fisher.........very thought provoking.
Oradour Sur Glane, scene of a 1944 SS massacre in France
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There was a background to the massacre. The Maquis took a senior SS commander and a few of his men prisoner. Interrogated them, then locked them alive in the back of a military ambulance. And set it on fire. In Oradour Sur Glane. What happened next was pure vengeance by the SS. It is likely the Maquis hid in the hills whilst the civilians of the village paid the price for their stupidity.
Rake Aboot
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Spent a week last year travelling on my motorcycle with my oldest son round Belgium.
Specifically to visit war sites and museums.
Both fascinating and sobering, and something all schools should be doing as a field trip.
Specifically to visit war sites and museums.
Both fascinating and sobering, and something all schools should be doing as a field trip.
Namman
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I thought the Resistance tried to delay SS Das Reich from reaching Normandy in time to affect the Landings.
HIndsight is wonderful .
I visited Oradour some 15 years ago with my daughters. To say it was upsetting is an understatement.
All over the occupied zone are memorials to Heroes murdered by the Gestapo and SS, along with innocent civilians.
Thankfully most of us have never had to live under an evil occupation and make
such choices.
My parents’ families got off lightly during the war.
We only lost one uncle who was too young to fight but taken as forced labour, as was my dad when he turned 15.
Both families suffered extreme hardships, but compared to many got through relatively unscathed.
My daughter visited the WWI battlefields during a school trip which inspired her to be a history teacher.
10 years later, as quite a young history teacher she organised the battlefield tours at the school where she teaches, leading a group of 37 for the week long trip.
No matter what else she does, I couldn’t be prouder of her.
We only lost one uncle who was too young to fight but taken as forced labour, as was my dad when he turned 15.
Both families suffered extreme hardships, but compared to many got through relatively unscathed.
My daughter visited the WWI battlefields during a school trip which inspired her to be a history teacher.
10 years later, as quite a young history teacher she organised the battlefield tours at the school where she teaches, leading a group of 37 for the week long trip.
No matter what else she does, I couldn’t be prouder of her.
Heym SR20
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A family member is married to a French lady, and they have an old farm in Burgandy. It’s a perfectly normal little French village. On the rear of one of the barns are pock marks on the wall where German soldiers shot some members of the resistance they had captured. There is no plaque, no memorial, no nothing. The village after the war just got with rebuilding and putting itself back together.
War is a terrible thing. But in mainland Britain we haven’t had war rampaging in our countryside for a few centuries- last was the Jacobite rebellion and that was pretty brutal. But it didn’t happen to our grand parents.
War is a terrible thing. But in mainland Britain we haven’t had war rampaging in our countryside for a few centuries- last was the Jacobite rebellion and that was pretty brutal. But it didn’t happen to our grand parents.
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