The haunting remains of vehicles belonging to residents of the village called Oradour sur Glane in the Haute-Vienne, left as a memorial after the village was destroyed on 10 June 1944, four days after D-Day, when all 643 of its inhabitants, 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 in World War II. 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. Souviens-toi (Remember)
2009 Visit
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