Located two hours north of Sarlat and 15 miles west of Limoges, this is one of the most powerful sights in France. French schoolchildren know this town well — most make a pilgrimage here. Village des Martyrs, as it is known, was machine-gunned and burned on June 10, 1944, by Nazi troops. The Nazis were either seeking revenge for the killing of one of their officers (by French Resistance fighters in a neighboring village) or simply terrorizing the populace in preparation for the upcoming Allied invasion (this was four days after D-Day).
