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On 10 June 1944, four days after D-Day, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in Nazi-occupied France was destroyed when 643 civilians, including non-combatant men, women, and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company as collective punishment for Resistance activity in the area including the capture and subsequent execution of a close friend of Waffen-SS ...
It last suffered damage as a target for bombs during World War II. [276] The ruins of Glastonbury Abbey. The Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s led to many monasteries, relics, and books being destroyed, such as Glastonbury Abbey, Fountains Abbey, Walsingham Priory, Waltham Abbey, Rievaulx Abbey and Furness Abbey.
"Ruins in Charleston, S.C." from Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign by George N. Barnard. Charleston, South Carolina, played a pivotal role at the start of the American Civil War as a stronghold of secession and an important Atlantic port for the Confederate States of America.
Ruins of Whitby Abbey, England The 7th-century Cathedral in Talin Ruins of Kızıl Kilise, "Red Church" in Güzelyurt Ruins of Kajaani Castle in Kajaani, Finland. Apart from acts of war, some important historic buildings have fallen victim to deliberate acts of destruction as a consequence of social, political and economic factors.
Ruins of churches destroyed during World War II (1 C, 25 P) D. ... Pages in category "Buildings and structures destroyed during World War II"
A delicate painting of a gymnast doing a handstand has popped up on the wall of a wrecked building outside of Kyiv and appears to be the work of the British graffiti artist known as Banksy.
The Disasters of War (Spanish: Los desastres de la guerra) is a series of 82 ... huddle behind the ruins of a building to lay a third woman to rest in the ground.
Rachael Ray has made three trips to Ukraine, and with each visit she's reminded of the devastation the war-torn country has suffered for the better part of a year now. But also with each visit ...