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    Sarah Farmer's 'Martyred Village'

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    In a paper of 5 pages, the massacre at Oradour-Sur-Glane ini 1944 is examined. There are no other sources cited in the bibliography.

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    Allied troops landed in Normandy. In her book "Martyred Village: Commemorating the 1944 Massacre at Oradour-Sur-Glane" Sarah Farmer takes us on an incredibly intriguing journey through history. She illustrates history  as it was, and history as it is remembered by this particular village. It is a fascinating story of people and how they cope with such incredible devastation. The following  paper reviews Farmers book. Martyred Village In her introduction Farmer illustrates how "Among German crimes of the Second World War, the massacre of 642 women, children, and men of  Oradour-sur-Glane by SS soldiers on 10 June 1944 is one of the most notorious. On that Saturday afternoon, four days after the Allied landings in Normandy, SS troops encircled the  town of Oradour in the rolling farm country of the Limousin and rounded up its inhabitants" (Farmer NA). They divided the people in the marketplace, with men being sent off  to barns and shot. "The soldiers locked the women and children in the church, shot them, and set the building (and the rest of the town) on fire. Those residents  of Oradour who had been away for the day, or had managed to escape the roundup, returned to a blackened scene of horror, carnage, and devastation" (Farmer NA). This  is the summary of what took place, but it is certainly not all there is to the tale. Farmer illustrates the events with incredibly painful clarity as she provides us  with information concerning the round up of the people and of the narrow escapes some of these people, some children, made. For example, we see that "The SS soldiers moved  quickly through town, hunting people out of their houses and driving them toward the market square. When soldiers came to the makeshift school for refugee children from the Lorraine, eight-year-old 

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