Description
Book SynopsisNear the end of World War II, four days after Allied armies landed at Normandy, a unit of Waffen SS en route to the front surrounded the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane and, without warning, massacred its citizens. In an effort to come to grips with this tragedy, Jean-Jacques Fouche explores the massacre from several points of.
Trade ReviewFundamentally excellent history, with an unusual style and a mastery of telling detail. Fouché's work carries a sense of immediacy, of real people struggling with fateful events.
-- Harvey Smith, Northern Illinois University
A remarkable achievement.... A very readable and gripping account of the most infamous German atrocity committed on French soil.
-- David Allen Harvey, author of
Constructing Class and Nationality in AlsaceA most valuable contribution to truth.
* The European Legacy *
Table of ContentsTable of Contents
Introduction
Translators' Note
Maps
1. What is Known about the Massacre?
2. The War Culture of the Waffen SS
3. The SS Das Reich Division in France
4. A Hot Spot: The Massif Central
5. Was Oradour Just an Ordinary Village?
6. Account of the Massacre
7. The Victims
8. Conflicting Accounts
9. Souviens-Toi-Remember
Afterword—Oradour-Sur-Glane, July 16, 1999-Opening Ceremony
Glossary of Abbreviations and Foreign Terms
Notes
Bibliography
Index
