88-year-old German charged over Oradour-sur-Glane WWII French massacre.

88-year-old German charged over Oradour-sur-Glane WWII French massacre.(RT).

Oradour-sur-Glane, a village in central France, was the site of the horrific SS attack. Women and children were rounded up and imprisoned in a church while the village was looted, the men divided into four groups, taken to barns and machine-gunned down. Many of the victims were set alight in the barns.

A full 190 men were killed. A further 247 women and 205 children died after an explosive was set off in the church, which subsequently went up in flames.
The unnamed German, 19 at the time of the massacre, was indicted over taking part in gunning down the men.
“The prosecutor's office in Dortmund has charged an 88-year-old pensioner from Cologne over the murder of 25 people committed by a group, and with aiding and abetting the murder of several hundred people,” said a statement released by the Cologne prosecutor’s office on Wednesday.
He was also deemed complicit in the deaths of the women and children as he “provided a guard near the church,” the court heard.Read the full story here.


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