Oradour-sur-Glane

3/12/22- Today we said goodbye to our cute air b&b and drove out of Ambroise and over to Tours. Tours had a indoor farmers market filled with lots of bread, meat, cheese, and pastry shops. We walked around the adorable town of Tours and somehow translated well enough to be able to buy ice cream. After Tours we drove over to the ruins of Oradour-sur-Glane. Oradour-sur-Glane was a town that was occupied by Nazi troops during WWII. Through some horrific turn of events the troops ordered all the women and children into the chapel and the men to meet up in different places. They told the men that they were searching the town for weapons, confident that there were no weapons in the village the men were at ease. However, the troops at a signal started shooting the men in the houses and the women and children in the chapel. The men were put on a pyre and burned while the women and children had Phosphorus and explosives thrown at them. Out of 625 inhabitants there were only 6 survivors who escaped through a miracle. The town was burned and the remnants of bodies thrown into a mass grave to prevent identification. Walking through this town was very somber. The museum while mostly in French had interesting facts and gave a good history lesson of the massacre that took place on June 10th 1944.