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Maillé may refer to the following places in France: * Maillé, Indre-et-Loire, a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department, site of a 1944 war crime * Maillé, Vendée Maillé () is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. The musicologist Damien Poisblaud was born in Maillé. See also *Communes of the Vendée department The following is a list of the 257 communes ..., a commune in the Vendée department * Maillé, Vienne, a commune in the Vienne department See also * Maille (other) {{geodis ...
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Maillé, Indre-et-Loire
Maillé () is a commune in the central French department of Indre-et-Loire. History World War II massacre On 25 August 1944, German soldiers killed 124 people and razed the village. The resultant massacre was the second-largest in France of World War II, after that at Oradour-sur-Glane. On the same day that Paris was surrendered to the Allies, an estimated 80 Waffen-SS soldiers of the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division entered the village of 600 people in the morning, and killed 124 residents, including 46 children under the age of 14, and 42 women. Many of the victims were shot; the remainder bludgeoned, bayoneted, or burned. The village was then shelled until it was in ruins. Survivors later found a handwritten message on several corpses: "This is punishment for terrorists and their assistants." The reasons for the massacre are still unknown, although on the previous day a group of French resistance fighters had killed several German officers travelling in a car, and in a s ...
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Maillé, Vendée
Maillé () is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. The musicologist Damien Poisblaud was born in Maillé. See also *Communes of the Vendée department The following is a list of the 257 communes of the Vendée department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2022):Communes of Vendée {{Vendée-geo-stub ...
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Maillé, Vienne
Maillé () is a commune in the Vienne department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ... in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France. See also * Communes of the Vienne department References Communes of Vienne (department) {{Vienne-geo-stub ...
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