The lidice of France.

The lidice of France. French civilians gaze at the burned and blackened ruins of what were once the homes of paceful French people in the new desolate village of Oradour-sur-Glane. Oradur-sur-Glane, 16 miles northwest of Limoges, was razed by German S.S. troops June 10, 1944, four days after "D-Day". of the 700 inhabitants, only seven escaped alive. The man of the village were rounded up, pushed into a barn and shot. Then the woman and children were forced inside the village church and burned alive. In the meantime, other storm troopers went through the village, drenching the house with an incendiary product before setting them on fire and machine gunning those who hid in a vain attempt to escape. The massacre 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.