On June 10, 1944, just four days after D-Day, soldiers of the Waffen-SS Das Reich Division surrounded the quiet village of Oradour-sur-Glane. Under the pretext of a routine security sweep, they gathered the inhabitants—men, women, and children—into the town square. What followed was a slaughter. The men were machine-gu**ed, and their bodies set on fire. The church was then filled with smoke and flames as incendiaries were detonated, burning alive the women and children trapped inside. In total,