Remember when I posted the video about Chernobyl and said I can think of a ghost town more ghostly than Pripyat? Well this is the one. Oradour-sur-Glane. This is a very sad story from WW2 and the video below does show images of some of the bodies. They are not really that graphic but people have different tolerances for such things and put the images together with the story and it's horrifying.
The village was destroyed by Nazis on the 10th of June 1944 and 642 of it's occupants were massacred including woman and children of all ages. The men were put in a barn where machine guns were aimed at their legs. They were shot down but mostly still alive, this is when they had fuel poured over them and they were burned alive. The women and children had been put inside the church and locked in. fires were lit around it and as they tried to escape from doors and windows they were met with the machine guns. Many simply burned to death. Only one 47 year old woman managed to get out alive. She, another woman and a child had managed to get out at the back but all were shot. She crawled, wounded in to some bushes and hid there until rescue came the following day.
After the war a new village was build nearby but Oradour-sur-Glane was ordered to be kept as it was by the French president. It stands to this day and a museum and memorial.
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