Guess that is why it stayed that way…
but I still cant get my head around Wars…never could see how it ever solved anything.’
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I have been to Oradour there is a deathly silence about it .
Old burnt out cars and household items still lie among the ruins exactly as the Germans left it .
You approach the village by tunnel so it has been completely preserved
The terrible massacre in the Church was recreated in another historic setting in the film The Patriot .
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This is an interesting photo I picked up on one of my many searches …can I trace where it is…Nope but I have still kept it…
built into a Mountain…
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Yes you can feel that when looking at the many Photos…
When you think how some of the French bowed down to the Germans for just an easy life really…Vichy do you know of it…
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My old man was in the Med on a French ship going to India during the war when France capitulated, apparently they stood guard over the French crew in case they tried to surrender or sail for France.
It’s somewhere I’ve wanted to visit ever since I heard about it many years ago. I’m not sure about this, but wasn’t it found after the Germans committed these atrocities, that it was never this town that had been involved in the capture of the Nazi officer, that it was a different town altogether? So that all these poor people died and their town was destroyed as a result of an error 
Terrible.
My (Polish) father saw one of his best friends being hung by the Germans in his local town square. The crime was that theblad had had an affair with one of the German officer’s wives.
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https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/06/05/the-massacre-at-oradour-sur-glanvee/
Bathsheba I have only ever read is was retribution…and a quote from that link…
‘‘It was one of the largest mass murders of French civilians during the German occupation, and an act of retribution against the townspeople for their perceived assistance to the French Resistance and the invading American forces’’.
they even crucified a baby…
It reminds me, one day I was going over to visit my daughters holiday home near L’isle of Jourdain and went into a supermarket there. I could not find fresh milk so a lady saw me searching and said could she assist me…we then had a chat, when she said where she was born she whispered it…Germany… in the quietest voice possible…
She was of an age that would remember the war 1st hand…
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OK… who has been let out of school early???
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How did that happen…?
I’ll have to flag it
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I’ll have to flag it
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Good god!!!
How did these people live with themselves? Absolute mystery to me!
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Thats weird lol
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Are you getting ghost duplicates at times? If so, me too. It seems to clear itself up though
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Just saying Dex my post showed up like you posted it…
so then I tried to suss it out.
Have flagged it to see whats going on…
bet you done it… 
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Seems to happen more when quoting something Di.
Yes lots and lots…
think I might have woke up some bad omens
think I have an answer…
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You have an answer? Go for it.
What’s really weird is that the duplicate post has a few minutes time difference stated posting time.
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Yes it is a test…
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There was some really bad things that went on with the Vichy…Some French made up to the Germans so that life was good for them…So you can guess how that area Around Paris maybe??
was like another War…
Don’t know how they slept in their beds either…
I need to read up more about it really…
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