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Oradour

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Oradour-sur-Glane, France, 2004: The remains of the original village of Oradour-sur-Glane stand today as a memorial to one of the worse atrocities ever to occur in France…

On the 10th of June 1944 the 2nd SS Panzer Division (Das Reich)- heading north from Toulouse after the D-Day landings- sealed off the town and ordered all the residents to assemble in the village square.

The SS had confused Oradour-sur-Glane with nearby Oradour-sur-Vayres, where the Resistance allegedly held a Waffen SS officer captive.

All the women and children were locked in the church while the village was looted. Meanwhile, the men were led to barns and sheds where machine-gun nests were already in place.

The SS proceeded to the church and exploded an incendiary device killing most of the women and children, the survivors tried to escape through the doors and windows of the church, only to be met with machine-gun fire.

Virtually the entire village was massacred, 642 innocent people lost their lives…

Oradour-sur-Glane in context is just one of many memorials to Europe’s recent murderous past-  Bosnia being an ugly modern reminder…

Damascus

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Damascus, Syria, November 2005:  With the escalating crisis in Syria and it’s spiral into civil war, it’s about time I posted some more images from Syria in 2005… Of the seven countries I visited in my late 2005 Athens to Cairo overland trip- over half are now going through dramatic changes… Lebanon was once again nearly bombed back to the stone ages by Israel in July 2006; Greece is now bankrupt, its EU status in jeopardy; early last year (2011) heralded the “Arab Spring” and a popular Egyptian revolution; and over the past year Syria has disintegrated into civil war… 

Cedars of God

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Bcharre, Lebanon, Nov 2005:  One of the few remaining groves of Cedar trees (Lebanon’s national symbol) are on Mount Makmel near the town of Bcharre. One of the trees has been carved with religious icons such as the crucifixion of Jesus. Bcharre’ most famous son is Lebanese-American artist, poet and writer Khalil Gibran, born here in 1883. Gibran is the third best-selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu. In 1998 the “Cedars of God” were added to the list of World Heritage Sites.

Moser

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Prague, Czech Republic, 2005: A contrasting shot in the old town… Local boys make first contact with an African street cleaner-  the Moser Gallery and an interested onlooker in the background…  Canon EOS 1N/28-135is