Adolf Diekmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Adolf Diekmann

SS officer

Date of Birth: 18-Dec-1914

Place of Birth: Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Date of Death: 29-Jun-1944

Profession: military personnel

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

On 10 June 1944, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in Nazi-occupied France was destroyed when 642 of its inhabitants, including women and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company. A new village was built nearby after the war, but President Charles de Gaulle ordered the original maintained as a permanent memorial and museum.