Day 92 Domestic Spaces & Museums #MuseumsUnlocked @danhicks On 10 June 1944 a Waffen-SS company held a massacre in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in the French countryside near Limoges. 
The Germans, including French collaborators, killed almost all inhabitants of Oradour-sur-Glane, and some visitors in the village, 642 victims, and only a few succeeded in an escape #MuseumsUnlocked @profdanhicks.
The men were gathered by the Germans in barns and executed by machine gun fire. Women and children locked up in the church, later, when they tried to escape 247 women and 205 children were also killed by machine gun fire. #MuseumsUnlocked @profdanhicks
The village was looted by the Germans and all was covered in fuel and set on fire, destroying the whole village. #MuseumsUnlocked @profdanhicks
Oradour-sur-Glane was never rebuild on the same place but the ruins in the village and remnants of the houses were maintained as a permanent museum and memorial of the fascist cruelties of the war. All photographs from our visit in August 2015 #MuseumsUnlocked @profdanhicks
