A couple of weeks ago I found myself for completely random work-related reasons reading a lengthy discussion of the massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane during WWII. The author pointed out that certain SS-apologists had attempted to claim that the mass slaughter and the destruction of the village had been the result of a pitched battle between the SS unit and a unit of Resistance who had deliberately chosen to engage them in a residential area, and that the French had been covering this up for sixty years. Parallels are up to the reader…
A couple of weeks ago I found myself for completely random work-related reasons reading a lengthy discussion of the massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane during WWII. The author pointed out that certain SS-apologists had attempted to claim that the mass slaughter and the destruction of the village had been the result of a pitched battle between the SS unit and a unit of Resistance who had deliberately chosen to engage them in a residential area, and that the French had been covering this up for sixty years. Parallels are up to the reader…