General note: minor corrections, such as to spelling, will
not normally be shown here.
05 August 2023 ... Note regarding the closure and reopening of
the church removed from the Home Page.
21 July 2023 ... Note added to the Home
Page to say that the ruined church will reopen to the public after being
renovated, on Saturday 5th August 2023.
04 July 2023 ... Timeline
updated to show
Ramona Dominguez-Gil added to the list of victims.
10 March 2023 ... This website has been
open for 23 years today, making it by far the longest continually running
website on the World Wide Web dealing with the subject of Oradour-sur-Glane and
what happened there on Saturday 10th June 1944.
11 February 2023 ... Robert
Hébras, the last of the survivors from the Laudy Barn died today in St
Junien, aged 97.
01 January 2023 ...
List of victims names completed,
this list will be added-to as information comes to hand and discrepancies in
names and dates are resolved.
07 December 2022 ... Showing
revised opening dates and times for
both ruins and the Centre de la Mémoire.
25 November 2022 ... List
of the victims names being added to the Appendices (over several weeks).
15 November 2022 ... Photo of
Diekmann replaced with a better quality version.
17 October 2022 ... Note added to
Home Page saying that the ruined church in the village is now closed to
visitors until mid-2023, to allow
repair work to take place.
13 August 2022 ... Number of
victims amended to show 643 with
effect from December 2019 when Mme Ramona Dominguez-Gil was added to the list.
01 June 2022 ... Minor update to
Bibliography page to make it display the image of the sewing machine properly.
25 May 2022 ... Minor update to
How to get there and places to stay advising visitors to check the official
Oradour website for the current Covid-19 advice.
21 March 2022 ... Most restrictions due to Covid-19 have been
removed from the Centre de la Mémoire and the ruins, see the Centre website for
full details.
10 March 2022 ... This website has been
open for 22 years today, making it by far the longest continually running
website on the World Wide Web dealing with the subject of Oradour-sur-Glane and
what happened there on Saturday 10th June 1944.
31January 2022 ...
Opening times for the ruins and the Centre
de la Mémoire updated to show the requirements that people must meet when
visiting the ruins and the Centre de la Mémoire in 2022.
01 January
2022 ... No specific new page additions to the website today, but I would like to
wish all readers a very happy New Year and offer you the hope that 2022 will see
the end of the world's Covid-19 problems. From today there will not be any
further additions to the Latest News page, all new
announcements will be made here on the Additions and Updates page.
16 December 2021 ... The
Home Page updated to show the annual closure of the
Centre de la Mémoire.
24 August 2021 ... A review of the
whole site has begun today, but individual pages will not be declared here if
they change; instead look at the foot of each page to see if and when it was
altered. The review is to be continuous and will not have an end date.
07 August 2021 ... A note added to
the Home Page advising all potential visitors to
check the health requirements required for entry, with the official
https://www.oradour.org website.
21 July 2021 ... Additional details
added to the Home Page regarding the, 'Health Pass'.
16 July 2021 ... Additional details
added to the Home Page regarding the 'Health
Pass' which the government is supposed to be issuing in the near future.
25 May 2021 ...
Opening times for the Centre and ruins
revised, with closing times now shown as possibly being one hour earlier
than before.
20 May 2021 ... The
Centre de la Mémoire will be open every
day from 09:00 to 18:00 (with appropriate health measures to prevent the spread
of Covid-19)
30 April 2021 ... Minor
update to the Timeline
10 April 2021 ... Opening details
changed to show access to the ruins only. The
Centre de la Mémoire is now closed to visitors, but the bookshop is available
for mail order only.
06 April 2021 ... The
Bibliography
updated to show Silent Village by Robert Pike.
22 March 2021 ...
From 22nd March, the bookshop in the
Centre de la Mémoire and the ruins themselves will open every day
between 09:00 and 18:00.
10 March 2021 ... This website has been
open for 21 years today, making it by far the longest continually running
website on the World Wide Web dealing with the subject of Oradour-sur-Glane and
what happened there on Saturday 10th June 1944.
11 February 2021 ... Due to the
measures taken to fight against Covid-19, the exhibits in the
Centre de la Mémoire
will remain closed until further notice. However, from 15th February, the
bookshop in the Centre and the ruins themselves will open every day between 13:00 and 17:30
29 January 2021 ... Home page
updated to show that the Centre de la Mémoire is now to
remain closed until further notice, due to the fight against the Covid-19
virus.
12 January 2021 ... Home page
updated to show the new expected reopening date for the
Centre de la Mémoire as being Monday 1st February at 09:00 (this is totally dependant on how well the fight
against Covid-19 is going at the time and it is possible that the opening could go back even further).
05 January 2021 ...
How
to get there and places to stay updated with dead links to some
accommodation removed.
01 January
2021 ... No additions to the website today, but I would like to wish all
readers a very happy New Year for 2021 and a hope that it will be better for
everyone than the wretched Covid-19 year of 2020.
16 December 2020 ...
Home page, How to get
there and places to stay, Latest News and Opening
times updated to show the winter closure of the Centre de la Mémoire and its
proposed reopening at 09:00 on Thursday 21st January 2021 (normally it would be
on 1st February 2021).
29 October 2020 ... Notice
added to the
Home Page, Latest News and the How to get there and
places to stay page, saying that the Centre de la Mémoire will be closed
with effect from Friday 30 October 2020 until
further notice (due to the spread of Covid-19).
26 August 2020 ... A new short page
added to the Appendices to describe the various
acts of vandalism that I have
seen carried out at Oradour.
22 August 2020 ...
Latest News updated to show the spray paint attack on the
Centre de la Mémoire.
06 August 2020 ... List of those
convicted in absentia at Bordeaux
in 1953 added to the Appendices.
31 July 2020 ... Johannes
Seefried statement added to
the Appendices.
21 July 2020 ... Otto
Weidinger's letter to the Minister of Justice
in 1968 added to the Appendices.
07 July 2020 ... Otto
Weidinger's statement made at Dortmund in 1962
added to the Appendices.
12 June 2020 ... Notice updated on
the Home Page, the Latest News
page and How to get there and places to stay,
to show the Centre de la Mémoire reopening at 09:00 on Monday 15th June 2020.
03 June 2020 ... Notice
amended on the
Home Page, Latest News and the How to get there and
places to stay pages saying that the Centre de la Mémoire can reopen as soon
as protective measurers have been installed.
26 May 2020 ... Entire site moved
onto "utf-8" character coding, if you find any anomalies such as strange
characters in any of the text, please let me know.
25 May 2020 ... Addition of
Heinz Werner's statement and the
Public Prosecutor's remarks on it.
05 May 2020 ... All the existing
Dortmund files have now been
updated and work commenced on translating, previously unreported statements.
22 April 2020 ...
All webpages
reviewed and the canonical link updated in the Head Section of them all.
09 April 2020 ... The
Timeline updated.
14 March 2020 ... Notice added to the
Home Page, Latest News and the How to get there and
places to stay page, saying that the Centre de la Mémoire is closed until
further notice, due to the spread of Covid-19
12 March 2020 ... A revised
statement by Sylvester Stadler
added to the Appendices.
10 March 2020 ... This website has been
open for 20 years today, making it by far the longest continually running
website on the World Wide Web dealing with the subject of Oradour-sur-Glane and
what happened there on Saturday 10th June 1944.
05 March 2020 ... Detlev Okrent
statement of November 1952 added
to the Appendices ("Detlev" can also be spelled as, "Detlef").
04 March 2020 ... The April 1963
statement by Detlef Okrent
updated.
03 March 2020 ... The
statement of Rudolf Lusar updated.
29 February 2020 ... All the entries for
Otto Kahn in the Appendices revised.
24 February 2020 ... All entries for
Georg Boos in the
Appendices revised.
15 February 2020 ... A
revised statement by Hans
Gerlach added to the Appendices.
13 February 2020 ... A revision of the
Dortmund' files has begun and
should be completed by May.
01 January 2020 ... No additions or
changes
made to the website today.
19 December 2019 ... How to get
there and places to stay updated.
18 December 2019 ... Bibliography
updated.
15 December 2019 ... How to get
there and places to stay updated and dead links removed.
13 November 2019 ... View of
the petrol pump in front of the Beaulieu Forge updated.
11 November 2019 ...
How
to get there and places to stay updated and dead links to accommodation
removed.
31 July 2019 ... The Timeline
updated.
01 May 2019 ... The review of the website has been halted for
the time being and will be resumed when I have more time available.
10 March 2019 ... This website has been
open for 19 years today, making it by far the longest continually running
website on the World Wide Web dealing with the subject of Oradour-sur-Glane and
what happened there on Saturday 10th June 1944.
17 February 2019 ... Recommended web
pages to view on this website updated.
08 February 2019 ... How to get
there and places to stay updated and dead links to accommodation list removed.
31 January 2019 ... A new page added showing
Recommended web-pages.
17 January 2019 ... A photograph of
Otto Erich Kahn added to the Picture
Gallery.
01 January 2019 ... A review
of the whole website has begun today, all pages are to be examined and
re-written as necessary; the end of the process will be announced here when
completed, probably by May 2019. A new photograph added to the Picture Gallery,
showing the increasing signs of decay to the
car of Doctor Desourteaux.
11 November 2018 ... 100 years ago today the armistice that
effectively ended the Great War came into effect at 11:00. If the
Great War and its armistice had not happened, there would not have been the tragedy of Oradour-sur-Glane: see
Chapter 1 of In a Ruined State for more
details. Pages dealing with the Aire de Repos
updated
08 November 2018 ...
Comparison photographs of the church during and following restoration.
Updated photograph of restriction sign at
the Centre de la Mémoire
07 November 2018 ... Comparison
photographs of the Doctor's car between 1998 and 2018 updated.
23 August 2018 ... Website moved to:
https://www.oradour.info, for increased
visitor security, please update
your browser bookmarks. Minor update to 1998
photo of the new church.
17 July 2018 ... Minor revision to
Chapter 1 of In a Ruined State.
16 July 2018 ... Revised photograph of
Otto Weidinger grave added to the Picture
Gallery.
10 March 2018 ... This website has been
open for 18 years today, making it by far the longest continually running
website on the World Wide Web dealing with the subject of Oradour-sur-Glane and
what happened there on Saturday 10th June 1944.
19 February 2018 ... Kahn's
statement made at Düsseldorf in 1967 added to the Appendices.
01 January 2018 ... Photograph
showing the new church at Oradour
undergoing extensive repair work due to damp ingress.
23 December 2017 ... New photograph showing
video supervision of Oradour.
31 May 2017 ... Many minor amendments to
How to get there and places to stay.
27 May 2017 ... Kahn's
statement made at Lüdinghausen added to the Appendices.
19 May 2017 ... Update to the
Timeline to show the death of Georg René Boos in 2015
19 April 2017 ... Opening
times for the Centre de la Mémoire and the ruins of Oradour revised.
10 March 2017 ... This website has been
open for 17 years today, making it by far the longest continually running
website on the World Wide Web dealing with the subject of Oradour-sur-Glane and
what happened there on Saturday 10th June 1944. Minor changes to
The Oradours of France.
15 February 2017 ... Kahn's
statement of 2nd January 1964 made at Dortmund added to the Appendices.
24 January 2017 ... Most of the work to make the website mobile
friendly, has been completed, please let me know of any specific problems via
the email address on the Home Page should
you encounter them.
21 January 2017 ... Most of the file sizes have been removed
from the Picture Gallery. This was firstly,
to make the menu look a little less cluttered and secondly, due to the rise in
the use of broadband they no longer served much useful purpose in warning
visitors of likely download times. Files sizes have been left visible for the
larger panoramic and higher definition photographs.
05 January 2017 ... The whole website is being reviewed in order
to make it even more mobile friendly, please be patient whilst this work is in
progress. I hope to have all modifications completed within a few weeks. Until
then, it may be necessary to 'pinch' some pages in order to make them fit the
screen of your device.
01 January 2017 ... A new item
showing the Opening Times for the ruins and
the Centre de la Mémoire added to the Home Page (and also shown
in the Appendices).
Accommodation listed in
How
to get there and places to stay updated.
23 December 2016 ... The death of Jean-Marcel Darthout recorded
in Dramatis Personae. Access times for
the Centre de la Mémoire updated in: How to get
there and places to stay.
22 August 2016 ... Most of the work completed to make the
website more mobile friendly. A complete re-write will be necessary to complete
the job and this will take place during 2017.
06 August 2016 ... A revision of the layout of whole website
begun to make it
more accessible to mobile devices of all kinds (this will take several days to
complete). Links Page removed, because
Google does a far better job.
05 May 2016 ... The
statement made by Sylvester Stadler at Dortmund in December 1962, added to
the website.
10 March 2016 ... This website has been
open for 16 years today, making it by far the longest continually running
website on the World Wide Web dealing with the subject of Oradour-sur-Glane and
what happened there on Saturday 10th June 1944.
07 March 2016 ... At last, I have started the translation of the
remainder of the Dortmund files, starting with Stadler's statement and these
files will begin to appear here from Easter onwards.
01 January 2016 ... Minor
amendments to various pages including the
Timeline and the SS-Rank Table.
19 November 2015 ... New photograph of
the banks of the River Glane and a revision to
The Masset Farm page.
01 September 2015 ... SS-Rank
Table updated.
28 July 2015 ... How to get
there and places to stay updated with new accommodation.
17 July 2015 ... How to get
there and places to stay updated with new accommodation.
18 April 2015 ... Photograph of Diekmann revised to include the
lyrics to, "Behind Blue Eyes"
25 March 2015 ...
The statement made by Hans
Gerlach added to the Appendices.
10 March 2015 ... This website has been
open for 15 years today, making it by far the longest continually running
website on the World Wide Web dealing with the subject of Oradour-sur-Glane and
what happened there on Saturday 10th June 1944.
08 March 2015 ... How to get
there and places to stay updated with an additional place to stay.
25 February 2015 ...
The third of three statements made by Boos and a
review of them added to the
Appendices.
12 February 2015 ...
The second of three statements made by Boos added to the Appendices.
09 February 2015 ... How to get
there and places to stay updated.
03 February 2015 ... Latest News updated
to report that the official Oradour website is working normally again.
31 January 2015 ... How to get
there and places to stay updated with an additional place to stay.
19 January 2015 ... Latest News updated
to mention the attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine office and the hacking of
the official Oradour website.
01 January 2015 ... Photograph of
the memorial showing the visit
of the Presidents of both France and Germany to Oradour in 2013 added to the
Picture Gallery.
09 December 2014 ... Latest News updated
with the German courts decision not to prosecute "Werner C".
25 November 2014 ... How to get
there and places to stay updated with new accommodation details.
15 November 2014 ... How to get
there and places to stay updated with new accommodation details.
19 August 2014 ... How to get
there and places to stay updated with new accommodation details.
04 July 2014 ...
How
to get there and places to stay updated with new accommodation details
23 June 2014 ...
70th anniversary commemoration photographs added to the Image Gallery.
24 May 2014 ...
How to get
there and places to stay updated to show a bus timetable for travel between
Limoges and Oradour.
10 May 2014 ...
How to get
there and places to stay updated with new accommodation details.
10 March 2014 ... This website has been
open for 14 years today, making it by far the longest continually running
website on the World Wide Web dealing with the subject of Oradour-sur-Glane and
what happened there on Saturday 10th June 1944.
18 January 2014 ...
The first of three statements made by Boos added to the Appendices.
01 January 2014 ... Photograph
added to the view of the Beaulieu forge, showing the
identification label on the village petrol pump.
15 December 2013 ... Minor update to Home
Page (additional thumbnail added).
05 November 2013 ... Revision and update to the photograph of
the Telephone Kiosk.
24 August 2013 ... Various cosmetic changes made to the
Home Page and How to
get there and Places to stay updated with dead links to accommodation
removed.
19 August 2013 ... The
1963 statement of Detlef Okrent
added to the Appendices.
29 July 2013 ... The
1962 statement of Rudolf Lusar added to the Appendices.
28 July 2013 ... Page added describing the
Dortmund Hearings during the 1960's into
Lammerding's involvement with the Oradour massacre.
18 July 2013 ... The start of the updates and corrections
throughout the website as a result of my gaining access to the remainder of the
statements concerning the French request to extradite Lammerding that were made
in Dortmund in the 1960's. This process will continue for months, probably until
late
2014. The completion of this process will be announced here.
07 July 2013 ... Latest News updated.
01 July 2013 ...
How
to get there and places to stay updated with more accommodation listed.
01 May 2013 ... A Virtual Tour
of Oradour-sur-Glane added to the website.
23 March 2013 ... Entire website moved to new "Load Balancing
Servers", if you notice any anomalies in presentation, or missing / corrupt
data, please let me know at:
michael@oradour.info
18 March 2013 ...
How
to get there and places to stay updated with additional accommodation.
10 March 2013 ... This website has been
open for 13 years today, making it by far the longest continually running
website on the World Wide Web dealing with the subject of Oradour-sur-Glane and
what happened there on Saturday 10th June 1944.
23 January 2013 ... A review of the whole website begun today
and many minor corrections carried out, this process will continue over the next
few weeks until its end is notified here.
01 January 2013 ... A
photograph of the Doctor's car, showing
restoration work to the passenger side sill.
07 December 2012 ... Begun adding a
new menu system
to the foot of all pages (except for the Site Map), it was completed on 14
December 2012.
04 December 2012 ... New photograph added for the
panorama looking up and down the Rue
Emile Desourteaux so as to give a 360 degree view.
14 November 2012 ... Photograph of the
rabbit hutches from which five men escaped
alive added to the Picture Gallery.
06 November 2012 ...
Photograph of Sylvester Stadler's grave added to the Picture Gallery.
05 November 2012 ... How to get
there and places to stay revised with additional places to stay being added.
01 September 2012 ... After much thought I have changed the
status of Oradour from that of a Town to that of a Village throughout this
website (if you notice any anomalies, please let me know).
25 July 2012 ... The section dealing with
Hitler's sister Paula
expanded (due to the original webspace being closed in the near future).
19 July 2012 ... Additional
panoramic views
being added over the next few days, in both low and higher definition file
sizes.
12 July 2012 ... Photographs of the
68th Anniversary
commemoration being added to the Picture Gallery over the next few days.
10 July 2012 ... Picture
Gallery layout extensively revised.
09 July 2012 ... Photograph of the memorial to those of the
Jewish faith added and all
memorial tablets in the cemetery
at Oradour re-photographed.
05 July 2012 ... How to get
there and places to stay revised, minor changes to other pages.
12 March 2012 ...
Lammerding's statement that he made at Dortmund in February 1962 has been added to
the appendices.
10 March 2012 ... This website has been
open for 12 years today, making it by far the longest continually running
website on the World Wide Web dealing with the subject of Oradour-sur-Glane and
what happened there on Saturday 10th June 1944.
22 February 2012 ...
Drawing of the hangings at Tulle on 9th June 1944 added to the
Picture Gallery.
20 February 2012 ... Various corrections to pages with
photographs of the W.W.I. memorial tablet.
27 January 2012 ...
How
to get there and places to stay updated to show an additional self-catering
establishment.
01 January 2012 ... Photograph of
telephone kiosk added to the
Picture Gallery.
11 November 2011 ... Photographs added of the
Memorials in the Parc de la Resistance in Schiltigheim, Strasbourg.
19 July 2011 ... Photograph of the
memorial plaque at Bad Doberan
which mentions Oradour.
15 July 2011 ... Minor revision to
Chapter 3 dealing with Kämpfe and to
the Das Reich Order of Battle.
09 July 2011 ... Minor revision to
Chapter 7.
12 May 2011 ... Chapter 7 revised slightly by adding a
Miscellaneous Points
section.
06 May 2011 ... Chapter 7 (An
Explanation for the Massacre) ... of In a Ruined State revised and
extensively rewritten.
11 April 2011 ... Photograph of
Karl Lenz as a Feldwebel added to the Picture Gallery (this has now been removed
from the website in April 2012).
10 March 2011 ... 1) This website has been
open for 11 years today, making it by far the longest continually running
website on the World Wide Web dealing with the subject of Oradour-sur-Glane and
what happened there on Saturday 10th June 1944. 2) Numerous link additions to
many of the photo pages.
01 March 2011 ... Two photographs of Hugo Sperrle added to the
Picture Gallery.
15 February 2011 ... Timeline
for Oradour-sur-Glane added to the Appendices, Home
Page redesigned.
07 February 2011 ... How to get
there and places to stay updated with details of wheelchair access to the
ruins.
01 January 2011 ... Additional
photographs added to the Picture Gallery
for 2011.
01 December 2010 ... How to get
there and places to stay updated and revised.
12 November 2010 ... Photograph of the
grave of Otto Weidinger and a panorama
showing the Church and the Lorraine
refugee school.
07 November 2010 ...
How
to get there and places to stay updated with additional accommodation shown.
01 September 2010 ... Photographs of the memorial in the cemetery
from 1998 and
2008 revised.
31 August 2010 ...
How
to get there and places to stay updated with additional accommodation shown.
30 August 2010 ... Chapter 5 of
In a Ruined State slightly revised.
28 August 2010 ... Chapter 8 of
In a Ruined State revised to reflect the ending of the Public Enquiry into
Bloody Sunday (in Northern Ireland).
19 August 2010 ... The Links page and
the How to get there and places to stay page
have been revised to show only website links on the Links
page and the accommodation in the area, on the
How to get there and places to stay page.
18 August 2010 ... Links page updated.
16 August 2010 ... Today
Oradour is a Town added to the Picture Gallery.
09 August 2010 ... Additional panorama views of the Doctor's car
added, both low and
high definition.
20 July 2010 ... Additional photographs for nesting
Great Tits and
Silence added.
19 July 2010 ... Additional photographs of the
Aire de Repos and the
Hotel de la Gare.
12 July 2010 ... Photograph of the
Court at Bordeaux added.
29 April 2010 ... Dramatis
Personae revised.
23 April 2010 ... Photograph of the sign near the entrance to
the Centre de la Mémoire banning dogs from
the Centre and the ruins.
29 March 2010 ... New photographs of the River Glane added to
the Picture Gallery.
24 March 2010 ... Link added in the Appendices to the 10th June
commemoration
ceremony.
10 March 2010 ... 1) This website has been
open for 10 years today, making it by far the longest continually running
website on the World Wide Web dealing with the subject of Oradour-sur-Glane and
what happened there on Saturday 10th June 1944 ... 2) Numerous minor corrections and
additions throughout the website and some pictures moved to their own folders
instead of all being located in the one large 'images' folder.
01 March 2010 ... Some revisions to the
SS Rank Table.
13 January 2010 ... More
higher definition pictures added to the Picture Gallery.
02 January 2010 ... How to get
there and places to stay revised and Links page
updated.
01 January 2010 ... Minor revision
to The 10th of June as a date in W.W.II. history.
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