Andreas Kranz

View shows the entrance of the martyr village of Oradour-sur-Glane, central France, where 642 citizens including 500 women and children were killed locked up in a church intentionally set on fire by a SS division in June 1944.

Former SS soldier, 88, charged over 1944 village massacre in France

November 3, 2021 at 7:52 p.m.

BERLIN/COLOGNE (Reuters) - German prosecutors have charged an 88-year-old former member of Hitler's elite Waffen SS with taking part in a World War Two massacre of hundreds of French villagers,...

Former SS soldier, 88, charged over 1944 village massacre in France

December 23, 2018 at 3:10 p.m.

BERLIN/COLOGNE (Reuters) - German prosecutors have charged an 88-year-old former member of Hitler's elite Waffen SS with taking part in a World War Two massacre of hundreds of French villagers,...

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