Back in 1944, the Germans entered a small town in western France, Oradour-sur-Glane and massacred all but two or three of its inhabitants. They were shot in barns and burned alive in the church.
Until then, Oradour was a sleepy town near Limoges, on a river (the Glane) and the inhabitants survived the war by fishing and growing their own food.
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