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Shortly after D-Day during World War II, French resistance fighters took 47 captured German soldiers to a small wooded area in southwest-central France. In the scorching heat, they forced the soldiers to dig their own graves, shot them dead one by one and buried the bodies, covering the remains with quicklime, according to a witness.
The story of the mass execution was concealed from the public for decades, a stain on the heralded resistance movement, until the last-surviving witness broke…
