The Minister of the Interior, Mr Adrien TIXIER is gathered on the scene of the martyrdom of Oradour sur Glane (Haute Vienne) for the 1st anniversary of the crime committed by the SS, June 10, 1944. In the presence of the only surviving child, Roger GODFRIN from Charly Oradour in Moselle.
Report on the tribute paid this morning in the presence of Emmanuel MACRON, Robert HEBRAS, the last survivor of the massacre and with the participation of hundreds of children. Comment on factual images and an excerpt from the speech delivered on the occasion by the Head of State.
On June 10, 1944, the SS division "Das Reich" going up through the Limousin towards Normandy and to take revenge on the attacks of the Limousin resistance committed in Haute Vienne a war crime, against the inhabitants of the village of Oradour sur Glane, women and children burned alive in the church after the men were shot. The village martyr will remain in the state to testify of German barbarism.
On Friday, Jacques CHIRAC inaugurated the Centre de la mémoire d'Oradour- sur-Glane, the village of Haute-Vienne where the Nazis massacred 642 inhabitants during the Second World War. Report on the visit of some students of a college in Charente who made the trip and discovered the new memory center.
In Oradour sur Glane, meeting with Robert HEBRAS, survivor of the Oradour massacre. He recounts the drama, the shooting in the barn and the loss of his mother and sisters in the church.
In Oradour sur Glane, a report devoted to the first visit of a German leader to this "martyred village" of Upper Vienna where one of the worst Nazi atrocities was perpetrated in occupied France in June 1944. Very strong images of the ceremony in the presence of François HOLLANDE, Joackim GAUCK, and Robert HEBRAS survivor of the massacre.
Testimony of Marguerite ROUFFANCHE, the only survivor of the church of Oradour burned by the Nazis. She recounts with great emotion the arrival of the Nazis in Oradour, the gathering of the inhabitants on the place of the fairground, the separation of the men in the barns and the women in the church.