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The mystery of the tiny French village exterminated by the Nazis Oradour-sur-Glane was flattened by the Nazis in 1944; its inhabitants massacred. With help from survivors, a new book unravels the atrocity The silent village: Oradour-sur-Glane On the morning of June 10, 1944, the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane was – like the rest of France – hopeful. It was just days after the Allies had successfully stormed the beaches of Normandy – D-Day on June 6 – following four years under the Nazi occupation and collaborationist regime of Vichy France. “Word had been coming in all week about the successful Allied landings that had taken place earlier that week,” writes Robert Pike in his new book, Silent Village. “Everybody knew that there was still a long way to go, but an end might finally be in sight.” ....