Aangirfan: ORADOUR SUR GLANE

Adolf Diekmann

Diekmann (Dickman, Dieckmann) Name Meaning - Ancestry.com

The name Diekmann is of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) origin.

'On 10 June 1944, four days after D-Day, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Nazi-occupied France was destroyed when 643 civilians, including non-combatant women and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company led by Adolf Diekmann.'

Diekmann is usually a Jewish name.

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"Shockingly, none of the men involved in the ruthless massacre did more than 14 years in prison for their crimes."

Oradour-Sur-Glane: Haunting Photos Of The Mysterious Nazi massacre...

"There were several Jewish people who survived.

"One older couple from the Bordeaux area were hidden by a neighbour in a cellar.

"A dentist from Brittany who had been staying in one of the village’s hotels having crossed the demarcation line watched event unfold from a ditch.

From the fires of Oradour - The History Press

Robert Pinède, a Jewish gentleman, and his three children were in Oradour. They were allowed to escape.

The remarkable Pinède family -

Robert, Francine, Jacqueline and André Pinède escaped - one of the troops let them escape.

Jean Roumy, a former chief of the pétainist (Nazi) veteran association and head of what was known to be one of the more right-wing families in Oradour, was the next door neighbour to the Pinède family. There were no denunciations. Indeed, the Pinède and Roumy families became good friends.

From the fires of Oradour - The History Press

"A few Nazis had been killed in a nearby town called Saint Junien.

"Some French resistance forces had blown up a train bridge controlled by the Nazis.

"Commander Diekmann (Nazi) took revenge for the death of his soldiers. The revenge was the tragedy at Oradour-sur-Glanes."