German Massacre site

john sutter, on March 5, 2008, said:

This is the site of a massacre of French civilians by the German Army on 13th June 1944.

31 males, non-combattants, including 6 non-Christians, were picked out of the fields that they were working in, apparently at random. They were tortured and murdered. Their bodies were thrown into two pits, one of which is approximately 3 metres to the right of the main monument.

Three of the victims were unrecognizable. The daughter of M. Fernand BANNER, who is buried here, tells that her father had had his eyes gouged out and fingernails torn out before he was killed.

The local population heard of the massacre in the woods and later exhumed the bodies and created this cemetery on the site of the massacre.

The massacre is remembered in small ceremonies throughout Brittany each year, and those who were so cruelly killed will again be remembered this year, 2008.