Abstract
Abstract This chapter analyses the trial of Oradour-sur-Glane, which opened before a military tribunal in Bordeaux in 1953. On 10 June 1944, a German column advanced towards the small village of Oradoursur-Glane in the south-west of France. The soldiers killed a total of 648 villagers, making it the worst massacre in occupied France, one of the worst in Western Europe and on a scale comparable to some of the most dramatic mass executions of the Eastern Front. While the trial was meant to condemn Nazi barbarity, it also ended up raising some difficult questions about France, Alsace, forced incorporation, duress, and justice between communities — all issues for which the Bordeaux tribunal turned out to be ill-equipped to address.
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