Oradour-sur-Glane massacre
642 French civilians massacred by a German Waffen-SS company in 1944
On the 10 of June 1944, members of the German Schutzstaffel (SS) killed nearly all people in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane, near Limoges. Officially, 642 people were killed, 36 could flee, and survived the massacre. The village was completely destroyed. This event is known as the Massacre of Oradour today.
It is comparable to the Marzabotto massacre, committed in Italy, or the Distomo massacre, committed in Greece.
By the number of victims, it is the worst masacre of the Second World War, in Western Europe.
