A SAD BUT INFORMATIVE DAY

I have today driven to the village of Oradour Sur Glane. Not far from Limouge. It's not a pretty village in fact there's not a building left in tact. On June the 10th 1944 the village was surrounded by Nazi SS soldiers. The population were corralled into the town square. The women & children were taken into the church & the men split into two groups. The SS told them they searching for weapons ( which they already new didn't exist. The men were then taken to two locations & shot.The women & children in the church which was set alight killing 642 men women & children. :-

The village was sealed off for 3 days to allow the SS. Soldiers to bury the remains in a mass grave and to burn every building as it stands today. The only roof to survive was that of the church, the timber went but the stone valt remained.

Another example of mans inhumanity to man.There is a new town built up around the village and life goes on.