Description
Images of the ruins of Oradour-sur-Glane, in western France, the site of one of the worst massacres of civilians by the Nazis in western Europe. On 10 June 1944, an armoured division of the SS machine-gunned around 200 men to death, then killed 254 women and 207 children in the church before setting the village on fire, an act of retribution ordered over the purported kidnapping of a commander. Only six people survived. French President Emmanuel Macron will visit the site on 10 June, accompanied by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. STOCKSHOTS