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47 captured Wehrmacht soldiers and one suspected collaborator were shot near a French village in June 1944. Almost 80 years later, one of the last eyewitnesses has commented on this. The authorities are looking for the mass grave.

He has been silent all his life. Now the 98-year-old Frenchman Edmond Réveil has reported on an alleged war crime that hardly anyone knew about until now. It happened a few days after massacres by the German occupying troops in June 1944 in Tulle and Oradour-sur-Glane.

However, in this case, French resistance fighters were the alleged perpetrators. They are said to have shot 47 Wehrmacht soldiers and a French woman suspected of collaboration on June 12, 1944 in a wooded area near the village of Meymac in Limousin.

Réveil, who was 19 years old at the time, belonged to a resistance group that had taken numerous prisoners during an attack on German soldiers in Tulle. They retreated with them to a poorly accessible forest area. "We didn't know what to do with them," Réveil recalled in an interview with the newspaper

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And if I'm not mistaken Oradour has been a vacant memorial since 1944...✡️ media has a WWII series on DVD called "World at War" and there's a segment on this town and how the Germans locked the town's people in a church and torched it and blah blah blah "OH THE HUMANITY".
More ✡️ lies...nothing mentioned about why the (retaliatory) measures were taken.