
Silent Village
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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 wartime atrocity.
Today, Oradour is remembered as a 'martyred village' and its ruins are preserved, but the stories of its inhabitants lie buried under the rubble of the intervening decades.
Silent Village gathers the powerful testimonies of survivors in the first account of Oradour as it was both before the tragedy and in its aftermath. A lost way of life is vividly recollected in this unique insight into the traditions, loves and rivalries of a typical village in occupied France.
Why this peaceful community was chosen for extermination has remained a mystery. Putting aside contemporary hearsay, Nazi rhetoric and revisionist theories, in this updated third edition Robert Pike returns to the archival evidence to narrate the tragedy as it truly happened - and give voice to the anguish of those left behind.
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'Based on eye-witness accounts, Robert Pike's moving book vividly depicts the lives of the villagers who were caught up in the tragedy of Oradour-sur-Glane and brings their experiences to our attention for the first time.' -- Professor Hanna Diamond, author of <i>Fleeing Hitler</i> 'Robert Pike has produced a highly readable and fascinating account of French life under the Occupation, illuminating through the tragedy of Oradour-sur-Glane one of the darkest moments in France's dark years.' -- Dr Chris Millington, author of <i>France in the Second World War</i> 'A triumph of detailed research, historical insight and empathy ... a brilliant reconstruction of lives and relationships before the horror struck.' -- Rod KedwardMore details
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Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Maps
- Timeline
- Cast
- Author's Note
- Introduction
- Part One: The Long Road
- Battles of a Priest
- The Freedom Tree
- The Glove-makers
- Autarky
- A Well-to-do Village
- The Way Home
- The Entrepreneur
- A Future of Music
- 'He Knows How to Teach'
- Just a Road Worker
- A Picture Postcard
- Mobilisation
- Evacuees
- Turmoil
- Exodus
- The Road
- 'A Surly Man of Great Pessimism'
- 'Maréchal, Nous Voilà'
- The Mosellans
- A Bigger Congregation
- The Camp
- The Shoes Scandal
- The Camp Commander
- A Return to Roots
- Under Surveillance
- A Restricted Life
- 'The Prestige of the Marshal Remains Intact'
- Bellevue
- Occupation
- A Store Cupboard for the Reich
- The Tanner
- The Return of Otto
- Réfractaires
- The Petites Juives
- The Sign of the Gamma
- Watching in a Rigorous Silence
- Stolen Youth
- A New Girl
- Link and Filter
- Odette
- 1944
- Brehmer
- A Summer of Outsiders
- Part Two: The Tenth
- Gatherings
- Early Risers
- Fate
- Over the Threshold
- Clouds in the Morning
- Arrival
- Intentions
- Setting Up a Cordon
- They Have Killed One of our Soldiers
- Hiding Places
- 'The Boches are Here!'
- Gunshots
- A Round-Up
- The Sounds of Separation
- The Barn
- The Service Tram
- Sanctuary
- The Laudy-Mosnier Barn
- Witnesses
- The Sacristy
- The Cyclists
- Dying of Thirst
- Tough Decisions
- The Old Man
- The Burnt Page
- The Evening Tram
- The Miraculous
- A Path
- Part Three: Hellscape
- Das Reich
- Saint-Junien
- Numb
- A Key with No Door
- Discoveries
- Monday and Tuesday
- Destinies
- A Question of Survival
- Whispers
- Patry
- Filliol
- The Cathedral
- The Same Question
- Smokescreen
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
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