Timeline Saturday 10 June 1944

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Saturday 10 June 1944

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Events on Saturday 10 June 1944 1

1944 Oradour-sur-Glane massacre Waffen-SS destroys a French village Soldiers of the Das Reich division killed 643 inhabitants of Oradour-sur-Glane and burned the village. The men were shot and the women and children were burned in the church. The ruins have been preserved as a memorial.

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