Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. The village of Oradour-sur-Glane in central France has stood in ...

From Craco, Italy (1980 earthquake) to Oradour-sur-Glane, France (1944 Nazi massacre, preserved exactly as ...

But it said that it was unlikely the case against the pensioner, 89, would be provable A German court has thrown out a case against a former SS member accused of participating in the massacre of 642 ...

The inns were crowded, and nearly every farmhouse had guests in the little French town of Oradour-sur-Glane, near Limoges. A special distribution of tobacco rations had brought many farmers in to town ...

ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE, France (AP) — France remembered 642 people killed in the small village of Oradour-sur-Glane 75 years ago Monday, the biggest massacre of civilians by Nazi troops during Germany’s ...

The story of the massacre of an entire French village in WWII by the German SS. In response to French Resistance activities in the area and the D-Day landing of June 6, 1944, a German SS division ...

On 10 June, 1944, a troop of Waffen-SS slaughtered 643 inhabitants of the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in south-west France, before setting it ablaze to erase all trace. An exhibit of victims' family ...

IT WAS a sleepy village until all but six of its residents were massacred. Today, it remains a ghost town with burnt-out cars and bombed houses lining streets. It was a typical Saturday in Oradour-sur ...

German prosecutors have charged an 88-year-old former member of Hitler's elite Waffen SS with taking part in a World War II massacre of hundreds of French villagers, nearly 70 years after one of the ...