Bibliography
Oradour-sur-Glane 10th June 1944
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 Sewing machine posed in a ruined house at Oradour |
Note 1) that all title spellings shown below are from the publications themselves
Note 2) that prices were correct at time of writing, but cannot be guaranteed.
Books and videos covering Oradour
The following books and videos provide a good range of background material in English (or with English sub-titles) from various points of view and are either specifically about Oradour, or contain material which is relevant in the context of understanding the events that led up to 10 June 1944.
- Oradour, un film de Michel Follin et Marc Wilmart.
(VHS video and now from 2010 on DVD also) This is a
film made by Follin and Wilmart in 1988 and is in
two one-hour parts, neither of which offers any real explanation or gives much by way of
background as to why the event occurred. For most of the two parts, the video consists of
interviews with survivors and their relatives. It gives a valuable oral history of the
massacre and how it has affected the living. Part 1 is called, Les voix de la douleur (The
voices of grief) and Part 2 is, Aujourd'hui la mémoire (The memory today). Both parts are
on the same video-cassette and are available from the Centre de la Mémoire in
Oradour-sur-Glane. The cassette is produced in VHS format to the following standards:
NTSC, PAL and SECAM, it is in French with English sub-titles. The cost in 2002 was about €20.
It is now (from 2010) available as a DVD for the same price.
- Oradour, retour sur un massacre. (DVD) Directed by: Christophe Weber. DVD
(Region2) copies can be purchased from the Centre de la Mémoire in Oradour
for €20. The program is in
French, lasts for 52 minutes and since 2006 has both French and
English sub-titles (see English
transcript). It can also be purchased directly from
Sunset Presse at: 98 route de la Reine, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
Telephone: +33 (0)1
4131 6565 Fax: +33 (0)1 4131 6560. Email: sunsetpresse@sunsetpresse.fr
(I believe that they can also supply the
programme on VHS tape).
- Une vie avec Oradour. (DVD)
Directed by Patrick Séraudie. DVD (Region 2) copies can be purchased from the
Centre de la Mémoire in Oradour-sur-Glane for €20. The program is in French,
but has sub-titles in both English and German for the main part of 84
minutes length, but not for the 35 minute supplemental testimony of
Jacqueline Pinède and Martial Brissaud. The main part of the film is
concerning the testimony of Robert Hébras and (to a lesser extent)
Jean-Marcel Darthout. First produced in 2012.
- Oradour-sur-Glane a vision of horror. By: Guy Pauchou & Dr. Pierre Masfrand. Published by: The Remembrance
Committee and the National Association of the Families of the Martyrs of
Oradour-sur-Glane: 2003 Edition. ISBN 2-910939-09-X (English version). Available from the Centre de la Mémoire in Oradour.
Cost in 2023 was €10-00
- Oradour-sur-Glane. The Tragedy Hour by Hour. By Robert Hébras. Published by: Editions C.M.D. ISBN 2-909826-14-7 Available from the Centre de la Mémoire in Oradour.
- Understand Oradour-sur-Glane Drama.
By Robert Hébras. Published by: Editions C.M.D. ISBN 2-909826-17-1 (the English language
version available in 2000 was of a very poor standard of translation and it is no longer
available from the Centre de la Mémoire).
- Centre of Remembrance for Oradour. By, unknown author.
Published by: Centre de la Mémoire, Oradour. ISBN 0-/1999. Available
from the Centre de la Mémoire in Oradour, cost (in 2003) €3-50
- Oradour massacre and aftermath. By: Robin Mackness (died
2021). Published by:
Bloomsbury. ISBN 0-7475-1962-5. (the book that got me interested in the
story of Oradour and led to this website being created).
- Secret Treasure, Secret Power. The True Story of the web
of gold. (the book's cover gives the title as, The True History
of the Web of Gold, but inside, History changes to Story). By: Robin
Mackness (died 2021) and Guy Patton. Published by Sidgwick & Jackson. ISBN 0-330-37351-X
- Das Reich .. The march of the 2nd SS-Panzer Division
through France. By: Max Hastings. Published by: Holt Rinehart and
Winston. ISBN 0-8050-1407-1
- Das Reich - 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich - Drive to
Normandy June 1944. By: Philip Vickers. Published by: Leo Cooper.
ISBN 0-85052-699-X
- Oradour village of the dead. By:
Philip Beck. Published by: Leo Cooper. ISBN 0-85052-252-8
- Oradour the death of a village.
By: Philip
Beck. Published by: Pen and Sword Military. ISBN 1 84415 100 X (published 2004)
- Comrades to the End. By: Otto
Weidinger. Published by: Schiffer. ISBN 0-7643-0593-X
- Tulle and Oradour a Franco-German Tragedy. By: Otto Weidinger. Published by: privately published no ISBN code. In both the
original German by Weidinger and translated into English by Colin B. Newberry.
- Madness at Oradour. By: Jens
Kruuse. Published by: Secker & Warburg. SBN 436-23700-8 (Note
that the code quoted in my copy of the book is an, "SBN" not an "ISBN"
number.)
- Martyred Village. By: Sarah Farmer.
Published by: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-21186-3
- Oradour-sur-Glane: The slaughter of
our village. By André Desourteaux and Robert Hébras (this is the
English language version of the book). Published by: L'Imprimerie de l'Ouest
- La Rochelle. ISBN 2-84702-180-9. Cost (in 2007) €26-00
- Massacre at Oradour, France 1944.
By Jean-Jacques Fouché (this is the English translation of the book by
David Sices and James B. Atkinson) Published by: Northern Illinois
University Press. ISBN 0-87580-601-5
- Oradour the final verdict - The
anatomy and aftermath of a massacre. By Douglas W. Hawes. Published
by: Author House. ISBN 978-1-4259-8654-4 (sc) ISBN: 978-4259-8655-1 (hc)
- Silent Village. By Robert Pike. Published by: The History Press. ISBN 9780750997607
Books and videos on the Second World War and SS
The following video and books provide background material to the SS and the Second World War (in Europe).
- The World at War. (video and DVD) This
is the programme released by Thames
Television in 1974 as a 26-part documentary on the history of World War II, each episode
lasts for 52 minutes. It was produced by Jeremy Isaacs with narration by Laurence Olivier
and original music by Carl Davis. The opening sequence of the first episode and the
closing of the last, feature Oradour-sur-Glane with a voice-over by Laurence Olivier (the
choral music played at the end of the last episode as the camera pans over Oradour, is the Kyrie from
the St Nicholas Mass by Haydn).
- Waffen-SS, Hitler's black guard at war. By: Christopher Ailsby. Published by: Parragon. ISBN 0-75252-833-5
- In perfect formation, SS ideology and the
SS-Junkerschule-Tölz. By: Jay Hatheway. Published by: Schiffer.
ISBN 0-7643-0753-3
- The SS: Hitler's Instrument of terror. By: Gordon Williamson. Published by: Sidgwick & Jackson. ISBN 0-283-06206-1
- Loyalty is my Honour. By: Gordon
Williamson. Published by: Brown Packaging Books. ISBN 1-84100-035-3
- Himmler Reichsführer SS. By: Peter
Padfield. Published by: Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-40437-8
- Signal Officers of the Waffen-SS. By: John P. Moore. Published by: J.P.Moore
Publishing, Portland Oregon 97062. ISBN 0-9648509-1-5
- Hitler Warned Us. By: John Laffin.
Published by: Brassey's. ISBN 1-85753-103-5
- Hitler. By. John Toland. Published
by: Wordsworth. ISBN 1-85326-676-0
- Hitler (1889-1936 Hubris). By: Ian
Kershaw. Published by: The Penguin Press. ISBN 0-713-99047-3
- Hitler (1936-1945 Nemesis). By: Ian
Kershaw. Published by: The Penguin Press. ISBN 0-713-99229-8
- Encyclopaedia of the Third Reich. By:
Louis L. Snyder. Published by: Wordsworth. ISBN 1-85326-684-1
- The Nazis: A Warning from History.
By: Laurence Rees. Published by BBC Worldwide Ltd. ISBN 0-563-38704-1
- War of the Century. By: Laurence
Rees. Published by: BBC Worldwide Ltd. ISBN 0-563-38477-8
- The SS: Alibi of a Nation 1922-45. By: Gerald
Reitlinger. Published by: Da Capo Press (May 1989). ISBN 0-306-80351-8
- Interrogations: The Nazi elite in Allied hands 1945.
By: Richard Overy. Published by: The Penguin Group (in 2001). ISBN 0-713-99350-2
- Until the Final Hour, Hitler's last Secretary. By:
Traudl Junge. Translated into English by: Anthea Bell. Published by: Weidenfield &
Nicolson. ISBN 0-297-84720-1
- History of the SS. By G.S. Graber. Published by:
Granada Publishing Limited in Mayflower Books 1980. ISBN 0-261-66434-4
- Waffen-SS Encyclopedia. By
Marc J. Rikmenspoel. Published by: The Military Book Club 2004. ISBN 10:
0-9717650-8-1 and 13: 978-0-9717650-8-5
Newspaper sources for the trial at Bordeaux in 1953
The following sources provide further material about the trial at Bordeaux in 1953.
- British Newspapers. The Times, The
Sunday Times, The Daily Mail, The Daily Mirror. The Observer, The Daily Telegraph,
Manchester Guardian and The Daily Express from January to March 1953.
- American newspaper. New York Times from January to March 1953.
Books on the Vichy State
The following sources provide background material concerning the Vichy State from 1940 to 1944 and its aftermath.
- The Vichy Regime 1940-44. By:
Robert Aron. (English translation by Humphrey Hare). Published by: Putnam. No ISBN quoted
in my copy.
- Vichy Boyhood. By Pascal Jardin
(English translation by Jean Stewart). Published by: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0 571 10739 7
- The Resistance versus Vichy. By:
Peter Novick. Published by: Chatto & Windus Ltd. ISBN 7011 1345 6
- Pétain's Crime. By: Paul Webster. Published by: Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-46913-5
Books on the War in the East
The following sources provide background material concerning the War in the East.
- Russia's War. By: Richard Overy.
Published by: The Penguin Press. ISBN 0-713-99223-9
- Barbarossa: The Russian German conflict 1941-45. By Alan Clarke. Published by: William Morrow & Co; ; Reissue edition (June 1985). ISBN 0-688-04268-6
Papers from the Public Record Office at Kew (England)
The following sources provide material from the Public Record Office in Kew, Richmond, Surry, England.
- Report No. PWIS(H)/KP/113 -
SS-Panzer Grenadier Regiment 4 "Der Führer" - Kempton Park Camp 7
July 1944.
- Report No. PWIS(H)/LDC/406 - Report on interrogation of PW KP 104909 SS-Sturmann Fritz EHLEV
© Michael Williams: 10 March 2000, revised
25 February 2024.