Columns of Hell
Columns of Hell ( French Colonnes infernales ) refers to the troops of General Louis Marie Turreau , who implemented the measures ordered by the National Convention to suppress the uprising in the Vendée from January to May 1794 . This included indiscriminate murders of the civilian population as well as the destruction of infrastructure (burning down villages, destroying the crops).
The number of victims can no longer be precisely determined today, but must have been in the tens of thousands, so that the actions of Turreaus' twelve columns are now regarded as genocide .
literature
- Nicolas Delahaye, Pierre-Marie Gaborit: Les 12 Colonnes infernales de Turreau. Editions Pays et Terroirs, 1995
- Simone Loidreau: Les colonnes infernales en Vendée. Éditions du Choletais, Hendaye 1994, ISBN 978-2-917756-09-6
Web links
- The Revenge of the Columns of Hell , article by Dieter Wild in Der Spiegel from May 10, 1993