New Oradour massacre investigation....

[joea]

Originally Posted by sebfrench76

Please,for the memory of these guys,could you please stop using the word "terrorist" to qualify brave young men fighting for our freedom?
Assimilating them to movements like Al-Quaida,is an insult to the fallen ones.

A "small" Oradour......one beetween so many others..
http://furtherglory.wordpress.com/20...age-of-maille/

All around the place i'm living,memorials are everywhere,Resistants have been massacred all around Rouen,in the forests of Normandie,in the ditches of the smallest roads,our youthness was tortured by the nazis.
So forgive me once,but this word "terrorist" is not weel adaptative to heros.

I agree with you, but I don't think you read that webpage very closely. It appears to be a negationist website.

[sebfrench76]

The hell ,the stupid french!
While googling the Maillé massacre,i stumbled acrossthis article in English and wanted to share it with you....Better think twice,so,epic fail!
Any way,thank you to spot on,indeed,it was not franckly speaking ,the idea i wanted to defend...

[Half Pint John]

One mans freedom fighter is another's terrorist. Jewish people bombed British troop billets in Israel. Which were they when they used much the same tactics of those we rap in the big blanket we now call terrorist?

Definition of TERRORISM

: the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion

[Zouave]

Originally Posted by the ace

They rebuilt the town on a neighbouring site. The original was left as a War Memorial. At the entrance is a sign in French and English which says simply, 'Remember.'

Remember...

[sebfrench76]

Originally Posted by Half Pint John

One mans freedom fighter is another's terrorist. Jewish people bombed British troop billets in Israel. Which were they when they used much the same tactics of those we rap in the big blanket we now call terrorist?

Definition of TERRORISM

: the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion

With all the respect i have for you John,i don't agree.
My resistants were patriots,not terrorists.
Just like your Patriots harassing the British troops were not terrorists

[Michele]

Originally Posted by Half Pint John

One mans freedom fighter is another's terrorist. Jewish people bombed British troop billets in Israel. Which were they when they used much the same tactics of those we rap in the big blanket we now call terrorist?

Definition of TERRORISM

: the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion

First, I'll remark that by that definition, the Germans were terrorists. They used the terror of hostage-taking and reprisals as means of coercion over the civilian population.

That said, I'm not very concerned with this kind of labeling. The point isn't trying to justify massacres like this one by name-calling the opposition. The point is looking at the laws of war and seeing whether they were violated.

The Germans violated the Hague Convention IV 1907, which had an entire section about the military administration of occupied territories, wholesale. They committed continuated, widespread, gross and heinous war crimes. The Oradour massacre was one of those. That's the fact here.

[sebfrench76]

A nice little vid in English .
I watched it completely this time..




And a visit of the village and the museum,performed by US choralists.
Extremely moving,the choral song in the church,gosh...