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Ok so today we went to place called Oradore -sur-galne the story is, on 10th June 1944 the german Nazis SS soilders massacered the whole village reasons still unknown to this day, They entered the village and ordered all the townspeople - and anyone who happened to be in or near the town - to assemble in the village square, ostensibly to have their identity papers examined. In addition to the residents of the village, the SS also apprehended six people who did not live there but had the misfortune to be riding their bikes through the village when the Germans arrived. They then led the children and women to the Church and the men to 6 barns, they then looted the villlage, Then they tried to gas all the women and children in the church at the same time they shot all the men with machine guns aimaing at their legs so it didn't kill them and they died in agony then set the barns on fire, when the gas didn't kill all in the church they set in on fire any who tried to escape through windows were shot down by machine guns one lady managed to climb up to a window and threw herself out of it managed to survive also shot 5 times she laid in field until the next day! They found a disabled man in his bed he couldn't get out so they set his bed on fire and they found a baby in the house which they put in a bakers oven and cooked the poor thing!!!! :'( they then set the whole village on fire,this trip was by no means entertaining listening and seeing where these people lived everything as it was when the ss soliders left and in the church was the metal frame of a dolls pushchair I'm guessing this was a little girls who had been put in the church it was terrible i was almost in tears :'( the kids didn't really understand what had gone on or the extent of it we had to be very quiet in repesct of where we were which Isabelle didn't unsterstand at all but they all did very well, They have built a new village instead of rebuilding the old one next to it so the old village is exactly as it was left by the soilders, it is a very eerie place it was pouring with rain we were all soaked, glad we went though was an experience, Google the story of it its an interesting one! On the way home we were all very hungry we found a fast food place called quick we attempted to go through the drive through lol but we didn't speak good enough french whilst we were in the drive through the car started to smoke :/ this was not very good, we managed to get some food, looked at the car but it was too dark to see anything we had a our breakdown number ect but NO PHONE! Paul thought it was the raidiator and that the "smoke" was steam so we went and bought some water n things then we set off back home when we came across a toll when i put the window down you could smell a burning smell from the car so we found somewhere light a pulled over and realised it was the raidiator put water in the car andf we set off again took us about 3 n half hours to get home thought we were never going to make it back and the roads we had to go down were terrible if we had of broke down i don't know what we'd have down :/ anyhow we got home safe and sound :) x
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