On June 10, 1944 all 642 inhabitants of Oradour-sur-Glane were murdered by the passing German soldiers on their way to Normandy.
190 men were shot in a barn, 247 women and 205 children were first locked in the church and then burnt alive. That night, the town was razed.
Oradour-sur-Glane looks today exactly as it did in June 1944.