The Lidice of France.

The Lidice of France. This is the ruins of the church at Oradour-sur-Glane, where the woman and children were burned to death when the village 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 a barn and shot. Then the women and children were forced into the village church and burned alive. In the meantime other storm troopers went through the village, drenching the houses with an incendiary product before setting them afire and machine gunning those who had hidden in a vain attempt to escape. The massacro is believed to have been carried out either as a reprisal for the death of some German soldiers or as a result of the discovery of an arms dump near the village.