 Oradour-sur-Glane massacre

On 10 June 1944, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in Nazi-occupied France was destroyed when 642 of its inhabitants, including non-combatant women and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company.A new village was built nearby after the war, but President Charles de Gaulle ordered the original maintained as a permanent memorial and museum.