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• catalog abstract "Among German crimes of the Second World War, the Nazi massacre of 642 men, women, and children at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, is one of the most notorious. On that Saturday afternoon, four days after the Allied landings in Normandy, SS troops encircled the town in the rolling farm country of the Limousin. Soldiers marched the men to nearby barns, lined them up, and shot them. They then locked the women and children in the church, shot them, and set the building and the rest of the town on fire. Residents who had been away for the day returned to a blackened scene of horror, carnage, and devastation. In 1946 the French State expropriated and preserved the entire ruins of Oradour. The forty acres of crumbling houses, farms and shops became France's village martyr, set up as a monument to French suffering under the German occupation. Today, the village is a tourist destination, complete with maps and guidebooks. In this first full-scale study of the destruction of Oradour and its remembrance over the half century since the war, Sarah Farmer investigates the prominence of the massacre in French understanding of the national experience under German domination. Through interviews with survivors and village officials, as well as extensive archival research, she pieces together a fascinating history of both a shattering event and its memorial afterlife. Complemented by haunting photographs of the site, Farmer's eloquent dissection of France's national memory addresses the personal and private ways in which, through remembrance, people try to come to terms with enormous loss. Martyred Village will have implications for the study of the history and sociology of memory, testimonies about remembrances of war and the Holocaust, and postmodern concerns with the presentation of the past.--Publisher description.".
• catalog alternative "Oradour, arrêt sur mémoire. English".
• catalog contributor b10873150.
• catalog coverage "Oradour-sur-Glane (France) History.".
• catalog created "c1999.".
• catalog date "1999".
• catalog date "c1999.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
• catalog description "Among German crimes of the Second World War, the Nazi massacre of 642 men, women, and children at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, is one of the most notorious. On that Saturday afternoon, four days after the Allied landings in Normandy, SS troops encircled the town in the rolling farm country of the Limousin. Soldiers marched the men to nearby barns, lined them up, and shot them. They then locked the women and children in the church, shot them, and set the building and the rest of the town on fire. Residents who had been away for the day returned to a blackened scene of horror, carnage, and devastation. In 1946 the French State expropriated and preserved the entire ruins of Oradour. The forty acres of crumbling houses, farms and shops became France's village martyr, set up as a monument to French suffering under the German occupation. Today, the village is a tourist destination, complete with maps and guidebooks. In this first full-scale study of the destruction of Oradour and its remembrance over the half century since the war, Sarah Farmer investigates the prominence of the massacre in French understanding of the national experience under German domination. Through interviews with survivors and village officials, as well as extensive archival research, she pieces together a fascinating history of both a shattering event and its memorial afterlife. Complemented by haunting photographs of the site, Farmer's eloquent dissection of France's national memory addresses the personal and private ways in which, through remembrance, people try to come to terms with enormous loss. Martyred Village will have implications for the study of the history and sociology of memory, testimonies about remembrances of war and the Holocaust, and postmodern concerns with the presentation of the past.--Publisher description.".
• catalog description "Ch. 1. The Massacre -- Ch. 2. Framing the Story -- Ch. 3. Creating the Monument -- Ch. 4. The Memorial Landscape -- Ch. 5. The Bordeaux Trial -- Ch. 6. The New Town.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-282) and index.".
• catalog extent "xvii, 300 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0520211863".
• catalog issued "1999".
• catalog issued "c1999.".
• catalog language "eng fre".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
• catalog spatial "France Oradour-sur-Glane.".
• catalog spatial "Oradour-sur-Glane (France) History.".
• catalog subject "940.54/05/094466 21".
• catalog subject "D804.G4 F2913 1999".
• catalog subject "Massacres France Oradour-sur-Glane.".
• catalog subject "Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre, 1944.".
• catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Atrocities.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Ch. 1. The Massacre -- Ch. 2. Framing the Story -- Ch. 3. Creating the Monument -- Ch. 4. The Memorial Landscape -- Ch. 5. The Bordeaux Trial -- Ch. 6. The New Town.".
• catalog title "Martyred village : commemorating the 1944 massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane / Sarah Farmer.".
• catalog title "Oradour, arrêt sur mémoire. English".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".