Silent Village - Oradour sur Glane
- Episode aired Jun 14, 2021
My guest today is Robert Pike author of Silent Village - Life and Death in Occupied France. On 10 June 1944, four days after Allied forces landed in Normandy, the picturesque village of Orad... Read allMy guest today is Robert Pike author of Silent Village - Life and Death in Occupied France. On 10 June 1944, four days after Allied forces landed in Normandy, the picturesque village of Oradour-sur-Glane in the rural heart of France was destroyed by an armoured SS Panzer division... Read allMy guest today is Robert Pike author of Silent Village - Life and Death in Occupied France. On 10 June 1944, four days after Allied forces landed in Normandy, the picturesque village of Oradour-sur-Glane in the rural heart of France was destroyed by an armoured SS Panzer division. Six hundred and forty-three men, women and children were murdered in the nation's worst ... Read all