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88-Year-Old Former SS Soldier Charged With French Village Massacre

JL;DR SUMMARY An 88-year-old former Waffen SS soldier has been charged by German prosecutors for his alleged involvement in the 1944 massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane, France, where 642 villagers, including 207 children, were killed. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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World War IiJusticeFranceMassacreNazismWar CrimesFrench ResistanceWaffen SsOradour Sur GlaneGerman Prosecution

Places mentioned

Oradour-sur-Glane, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
"SS soldiers took the small village of Oradour-sur-Glane in central France by surprise and killed nearly all its inhabitants within a few hours."
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
"The prosecution charges an 88-year-old pensioner from Cologne with (joining in) the destruction of Oradour-sur-Glane in France, said Achim Hengstenberg, court spokesman in the western German city."
Bavaria, Germany
"He died in his bed in Bavaria in 1971."
Grand-Est, France
"Their province of Alsace had been annexed by Germany in 1940 and Alsatians were deemed to have been forced to join the Nazi army, even though some clearly enlisted voluntarily."
Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
"and was sentenced to death in absentia by a Bordeaux military court in 1951."

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