Monday, June 10th, 2024
Visitors stand by the remains of houses damaged during WWII ahead of French President Emmanuel Macron visit to attend a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the massacre of 643 persons by Nazi German forces, in Oradour-sur-Glane, southwestern France, Monday, June 10, 2024. On June 10, 1944, just four days after the Allied forces landed on the Normandy coast on D-Day, 643 inhabitants, including 247 children, were massacred in the tranquil village of Oradour-sur-Glane in southwestern France, by German Waffen-SS soldiers belonging to the 2nd SS Panzer Division "Das Reich". (Ludovic Marin via AP)