The Lidice of France.

The Lidice of France. These are burned and blackened skeletons of residents of the now desolate village of Oradour-sur-Glane. Oradour-sur-Glane, 16 milos northwest of Limoges, was razed by Nazi S.S. troops June 10, 1944, four days after "D-Day". Of the 700 inhabitants, only seven escaped alive. The men of the village were rounded up, pushed into in a barn and shot. Then the women and children were forced inside the village church and burned alive. In the meantime other storm troopers wont through the village, drenching the houses with an incendiary product before setting them afire and machine gunning those who hid in a vain attempt to escape. The massacre is believed to have been carried out as a reprisal for the death of some German soldiers or as a result of the discovery of an arms dump near the village.