Robert H�bras was one of only six persons to survive the massacre of Oradour on the 10 June 1944. Marguerite Rouffanche the only female survivor of this mass murder, which got to a national allegory for NS-Atrocity in the post war period in France. She was the only one who escaped from this village church which became a deadly trap, where 207 children and 254 women suffocated or burned alive by SS-Soldiers. Robert H�bras, Jean-Marcel Darthout, Mathieu Borie, Cl�ment Broussaudier, Yvon Roby and Pierre-Henri Poutaraud were the only six of 186 male civilians who survived the execution with machine guns. The six mentioned persons stayed ? partly covered beneath the dead bodies of their buddies ? in the barn and pretended to be dead. The SS-Soldiers went on the pile of corpses and shot everyone who was still moving. They set the barn on fire 15 minutes after the execution to cover the tracks of the massacre. Pierre-Henri Poutaraud fled out of the fire too soon and was murdered by a guard positioned near the cemetery. Because of the fear for their lives the five remaining men waited so long under the burning corpses that they themselves caught fire. 

June 29th, 1925 in Oradour-sur-Glane  /  Died:   Feb 11th, 2023