My sister, Dawn, sent me a slideshow of the massacre in the French town of Oradour-sur-Glane. I hadn't heard of this tragedy before.
In the afternoon of 10th June 1944 a detachment of SS troops arrived in Oradour-sur-Glane, a peaceful town near the city of Limoges in central France. The troops sealed off the entrances to the town and rounded up the inhabitants, including those they had collected from nearby farms on their way in.At the end of the day, the SS had murdered a total of 642 men women and children.
Following the war the French government decided to preserve the town in its ruined state as a memorial to the murdered inhabitants.
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