Kool Kroozer
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This is one place I have been really looking forward to visiting as i guess many of you hardcore MHs have already, and as my ol fella served in WW2 but fighting the Japanese in Burma he would never talk about what he did or saw and just wouldnt open up about anything to do with it, and as i love the history of the past i have visited the many war cemeteries in France and even get a bit emotional about it...especially the big American one at Omaha. ..well we arrived at Oradour late lastnight after a constant trek via France and stayed on the aire at the back of the sports stadium, got up nice an early for the 3 minute drive to the free car park outside the what was left of the village.
Waiting for swmbo to get ready so I wandered over to the gates and took a few pics of what I could see of the village, i had a strange feeling come over me as I stood there looking at the ruins, a French woman came by and started to cry and her husband comforted her, i gave a slight smile and walked back to the van, we set off to the entry of the village where you walk down some steps into a kind of reception area where they had on display German war memorabilia of what happened along with a big flat screen tv showing what had happened on the day, German soldiers rounding everyone up and it looked like they were all kneeling down...at this point I just lost it, i had to turn around and walk out, it just seemed so wrong that all these people were murdered and its being glorified by a museum ..does or has anyone else get upset about this kind of thing ? I considered going back as i had drove for hours to get there but wasn't expecting it to be as graphic especially with all the German swatstickers and flags plastered all over the reception... a pretty sad state of affairs and a sad day ..for me.
Waiting for swmbo to get ready so I wandered over to the gates and took a few pics of what I could see of the village, i had a strange feeling come over me as I stood there looking at the ruins, a French woman came by and started to cry and her husband comforted her, i gave a slight smile and walked back to the van, we set off to the entry of the village where you walk down some steps into a kind of reception area where they had on display German war memorabilia of what happened along with a big flat screen tv showing what had happened on the day, German soldiers rounding everyone up and it looked like they were all kneeling down...at this point I just lost it, i had to turn around and walk out, it just seemed so wrong that all these people were murdered and its being glorified by a museum ..does or has anyone else get upset about this kind of thing ? I considered going back as i had drove for hours to get there but wasn't expecting it to be as graphic especially with all the German swatstickers and flags plastered all over the reception... a pretty sad state of affairs and a sad day ..for me.