Memory of a Nazi war crime: a tour at Dortan, Martyred Village, Jura, France
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Serge Mouraret / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
M51W60File size:
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3880 x 2181 px | 32.9 x 18.5 cm | 12.9 x 7.3 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
31 July 2017Location:
Dortan, Jura, FranceMore information:
DORTAN, JURA, FRANCE, JULY 31, 2018: A view shows the memorial to the civilians casualties of 1944 slaughter ercted near the bars fencing Dortan castle, formerly Nazi Headquarter of the Nazis troops during the occupation of July 1944. HISTORICAL ELEMENTS: The original village of Dortan was destroyed from July 12nd to July 22, 1944, and more or less 35 of its inhabitants (36 were killed while a lot of rapes and acts of torture were committed on the population by the 5th Regiment of Cossacks, a military unit belonging to the Eastern Legion, of the Wermacht. This slaughter was part of the Trettenfeld Operation held to wreck the underground fighters of the Ain (Maquis de l'Ain, in French). Burned on July 21, 1944, The village was completly destroyed. A new village was rebuilt after the war on a same site, This picture is part of a photographic essay called "Dortan, a martyred village".