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[[File:Azov-bn.gif|right|400px|thumb|(left) French supported Azov Battalion; (center) Nazi Black Sun wheel; (right) SS Panzer Division ''Das Riech'' which committed the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre.]]

[[File:Azov-bn.gif|right|400px|thumb|(left) French supported Azov Battalion; (center) Nazi Black Sun wheel; (right) SS Panzer Division ''Das Riech'' which committed the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre.]]

The massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, four days after the [[Normandy Invasion]] commenced, was committed by the SS Panzer Division Das Reich which used the same Nazi Wolfsangel insignia adopted by [[Azov Battalion]], which 5th Republic supported with money, training and weapons 79 years later.<ref>https://twitter.com/PhilippeMurer/status/1500086419477389318</ref>  The Nazis massacred the entire village, 642 people, men, women, children, and the elderly allegedly for harboring resistance fighters and to make an example to other villages.  The village was afterward burnt. The village was not rebuilt and remains in the condition the Nazis left it as a memorial.<ref>https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/oradour-sur-glane</ref>

The massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, four days after the [[Normandy Invasion]] commenced, was committed by the SS Panzer Division Das Reich which used the same Nazi Wolfsangel insignia adopted by [[Azov Battalion]], which 5th Republic supported with money, training and weapons 79 years later.<ref>https://twitter.com/PhilippeMurer/status/1500086419477389318</ref>   

 

The soldiers of the SS Panzer Division Das Riech rounded up the entire population for harboring resistance fighters and concentrated them on the market square. Thereafter they separated the villagers by gender. Members of the 1st and 2nd platoons took the 197 men to several barns on the edge of town and locked them in. The 3rd platoon locked up 240 women and 205 children in the village church. Then the SS men set fire to the barns and threw grenades through the windows of the church, shooting those who sought to escape the flames.

 

After 642 inhabitants, including seven [[Jewish]] refugees, were dead, the company looted the empty dwellings and then burned the village to the ground. At about 8:00 p.m. on the evening of June 10, the SS men withdrew from the smoking ruins. Only seven villagers survived the massacre: six men and a woman, all of them more or less severely injured. About fifteen other inhabitants of the village were able to escape the Germans before the massacre started or evade the roundup by hiding. The village was not rebuilt and remains in the condition the Nazis left it as a memorial.<ref>https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/oradour-sur-glane</ref>

===Vichy France===

===Vichy France===

:{{See also|French National Committee}}

{{See also|French National Committee}}

The "Vichy" government largely acquiesced to German plans, namely in the plunder of French resources and the forceful deportations of tens of thousands of French [[Jews]] living in France to [[concentration camp]]s across Europe, and was even more completely under German control following the German military occupation of November 1942. Economically, a full one-half of France's public sector revenue was appropriated by Germany. After 4 years of occupation and strife, Allied forces liberated France from Germany control in 1944.

The "Vichy" government largely acquiesced to German plans, namely in the plunder of French resources and the forceful deportations of tens of thousands of French [[Jews]] living in France to [[concentration camp]]s across Europe, and was even more completely under German control following the German military occupation of November 1942. Economically, a full one-half of France's public sector revenue was appropriated by Germany. After 4 years of occupation and strife, Allied forces liberated France from Germany control in 1944.