True Stories of WWII: Oradour-sur-Glane

Oradour-sur-Glane

Posted on Feb 24, 2017

In less than a day, a Nazi regiment reduced a French town to rubble, murdering all of its inhabitants. X Company's Dustin Milligan narrates the tragic story of Oradour-sur-Glane.

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