The village of Oradour-sur-Glane in central France has stood in ruins ... They took the women and children to the church, locked them in, and set the building on fire. Anyone who tried to escape ...

After being fired upon if they tried to escape, the interior of the church was set alight - reducing most bodies to cinders. Within hours, the community of Oradour-sur-Glane had been reduced to ...

Oradour-sur-Glane, however, was not renowned for resistance ... is the roofless Catholic Church where some 450 women and children were slain. The ferocity of the killings was such that fewer ...

By late afternoon, 450 women and children were now packed into the church under guard. Roughly 200 men were in various other locations around Oradour-sur-Glane. That's when the violence in this ...

Outside the church, a rusty iron cross supports a ... What was the reason for the senseless massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane? Not far away, there is another small town named Oradour-sur-Vayres ...

The women and children were imprisoned in a church into which explosives and ... of the man’s Panzer regiment had killed the Oradour-sur-Glane residents and burned down the village, the Cologne ...

Finally the Germans carried a large box to the center of the church, went out ... the Führer Regiment of the Reich Division left Oradour-sur-Glane. Horror-stricken, the bishop of Limoges read ...

His mother and two sisters perished in the church, where the SS soldiers had ... Robert Roger Hébras was born in Oradour-sur-Glane — so named for the town’s location on the River Glane ...

On 10 June, 1944, a troop of Waffen-SS slaughtered 643 inhabitants of the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in south-west France, before setting it ablaze to erase all trace. An exhibit of victims ...