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Ruins in Oradour-sur Glane. The town was destroyed by the SS on 10 June 1944.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 25729

Ruins in Oradour-sur Glane. The town was destroyed by the SS on 10 June 1944.

Overview

Caption: Ruins in Oradour-sur Glane. The town was destroyed by the SS on 10 June 1944.
Date: 1944 September 26
Locale: Oradour-sur-Glane, [Limousin; Haute-Vienne] France
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Rights & Restrictions

Photo Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Copyright: Public Domain

Source Record ID: 153-Case files 1944-49--box 128--file 11-90

Second Record ID: 111-SC-243407 (Album 3219)

Keywords & Subjects

Keyword: ATROCITIES (ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE) FRENCH RUINS/RUBBLE
Photo Designation: LIBERATION -- France -- Atrocities: Burial/Exhumation -- Oradour-sur-Glane

Record last modified:: 2018-02-08 00:00:00
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