Rue du 19 Juillet 1944
Oradour-sur-Vayres · Haute-Vienne (Nouvelle-Aquitaine) · France
Data: July 19
Photograph: Intercultura (Cécile Sellier) (2013-02-07)
1944. Batalla d’Oradour Sur Vayres.
That day, the resistance stopped at Oradour-sur-Vayres a train full of heavily armed soldiers. After heavy fighting, despite the presence of enemy reinforcements that Hitler did arrive from the regional capital, resistance forced the enemy to retreat and surrender. Seven soldiers of the resistance paid with their lives.