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FOUR RARE ORIGINAL PRE-1945 DOCUMENTS SIGNED BY THE FOUR SS OFFICERS
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE 1944 MASSACRES AT TULLE AND ORADOUR
Sylvester Stadler, Adolf Diekmann, Helmut Kämpfe & Heinz Barth
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The Tulle massacre was the roundup and summary execution of civilians in the French town of Tulle by the 2nd SS Panzer Division ‘Das Reich’ in June 1944, three days after the D-Day landings in World War II.
After a successful offensive by the French Resistance group Francs-tireur on 7 and 8 June 1944, the arrival of ‘Das Reich’ troops forced the Maquis to flee the city of Tulle (department of Corrèze) in south-central France. On 9 June 1944, after arresting all men between the ages of sixteen and sixty, the Schutzstaffel (SS) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) men ordered 120 of the prisoners to be hanged, of whom 99 were actually hanged. In the days that followed, 149 men were sent to the Dachau concentration camp, where 101 died. In total, the actions of the Wehrmacht, the Waffen-SS, and the SD claimed the lives of 213 civilian residents of Tulle.
A day later, the same 2nd SS Panzer Division ‘Das Reich’ was involved in the massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane. Before World War II, Oradour-sur-Glane was a quiet, rural community. The original village was destroyed on 10 June 1944, four days after D-Day, when 643 of its inhabitants, including 247 children, were massacred by a company of troops belonging to the 2nd SS Panzer Division ‘Das Reich’, a Waffen-SS unit of the military forces of Nazi Germany in World War II. There were only six survivors of the massacre. SS Sturmbannführer Adolf Diekmann, the commanding officer of the Der Führer regiment of the Das Reich division had wanted to destroy another French town, Oradour-sur-Vayres, whose people were said to be providing food and shelter to the maquis, but had taken a wrong turn on the road, which led him and his men to Oradour-sur-Glane, whose people had never supported the maquis.
A new village was built after the war on a nearby site, but on the orders of President Charles de Gaulle, the original has been maintained as a permanent memorial. The Centre de la mémoire d’Oradour museum is located beside the historic site.
SS Sturmbannführer Adolf Diekmann, who commanded the 1. Battalion of the SS Regiment ‘Der Führer’, ordered the massacre of Oradour as retaliation for the murder of SS officer Helmut Kämpfe. The Regimentskommandeur at the time was Sylvester Stadler. SS-Obersturmführer and Zugführer of the Regiment Heinz Barth gave his men the order to coral 26 civilians into a barn and shoot them with submachine guns. Barth himself was actively shooting, too.
Offered here are four original, pre-1945 documents with signatures of the four SS officers who are responsible for the massacres of Tulle and Oradour: Sylvester Stadler, Adolf Diekmann, Helmut Kämpfe and Heinz Barth.
Wikipedia page of SS-Brigadeführer Sylvester Stadler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_Stadler
Wikipedia page of SS-Sturmbannführer Adolf Diekmann: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Diekmann
Wikipedia page of SS-Sturmbannführer Helmut Kämpfe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_K%C3%A4mpfe
Wikipedia page of SS-Obersturmführer Heinz Barth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Barth
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