Oradour-sur-Glane

On the day before we arrived at St Jean we visited the town of Oradour-sur-Glane. This was the site of a notorious massacre during WWII.
From the TV series The World at War (imagine Sir Laurence Olivier reading this):

“Down this road, on a summer day in 1944… The soldiers came. Nobody lives here now. They stayed only a few hours. When they had gone, the community which had lived for a thousand years… was dead.
This is Oradour-sur-Glane, in France. The day the soldiers came, the people were gathered together. The men were taken to garages and barns, the women and children were led down this road … and they were driven… into this church. Here, they heard the firing as their men were shot. Then… they were killed too. A few weeks later, many of those who had done the killing were themselves dead, in battle.
They never rebuilt Oradour. Its ruins are a memorial. Its martyrdom stands for thousands upon thousands of other martyrdoms in Poland, in Russia, in Burma, in China, in a World at War…