Evidence found of German mass execution by French Resistance after D-Day
Casings and coins at a site in central France suggest prisoners were shot by the French Resistance after D-Day.
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Casings and coins at a site in central France suggest prisoners were shot by the French Resistance after D-Day.
French and German archaeologists dug a site near the small central French town of Meymac over eight days following harrowing testimony from the last surviving witness to the massacre
For almost 80 years, this cold-blooded massacre, carried out six days after the D-Day landings near the pretty town of Meymac, in the Correze region in central France, has remained a secret.
Edmond Réveil, 98, a combat veteran who witnessed the shooting of prisoners in central France at the end of World War II, says the story ‘needs to be known’
Edmond Réveil says he witnessed shooting of 47 German soldiers and one French woman accused of collaborating in June 1944