Oradour-sur-Glane located about twenty km from Limoges, this village was destroyed and its inhabitants murdered by an SS division. This is the largest massacre of civilians committed in France. The original village was destroyed on 10 June 1944, when 643 of its inhabitants, including women and children, were massacred by a company of troops belonging to the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich, a Waffen-SS unit of the military forces of Nazi Germany. A new village was built after the war on a nearby site, but on the orders of president Charles de Gaulle, the original has been maintained as a permanent memorial. Photo by Denis Prezat/ABACAPRESS.COM