Champ des Martyrs

This is where the 99 martyrs of Tulle were buried, hanged by the Nazis of the 2ᵉ SS Das Reich division on June 9, 1944.
The bodies will be returned to the families four months after the fact.

The Tulle massacre is a series of crimes committed in the town of Tulle by the 2nd SS Das Reich division on June 9, 1944, three days after the Normandy landings. After a FTP offensive on June 7 and 8, 1944, during which German troops murdered eighteen railway guards, the arrival of elements of the Das Reich forced the maquisards to evacuate the town.
On June 9, 1944, after rounding up men aged 16 to 60, the SS and members of the Sipo-SD doomed 120 Tulle residents to hang, 99 of whom were actually tortured.
In the days that follow, 149 men are deported to Dachau, where 101 lose their lives. In all, the crimes of the Wehrmacht, Waffen-SS and Sipo-SD claimed 218 civilian victims in Tulle. (Source Wikipedia)

This is where the 99 martyrs of Tulle were buried, hanged by the Nazis of the 2ᵉ SS Das Reich division on June 9, 1944.The bodies will be returned to the families four months after the fact.The Tulle massacre is a series of crimes committed in the town of Tulle by the 2nd SS Das Reich division on June 9, 1944, three days after the Normandy landings. After a FTP offensive on June 7 and 8, 1944, during which German troops murdered eighteen railway guards, the arrival of elements of the Das Reich forced the maquisards to evacuate the town. On June 9, 1944, after rounding up men aged 16 to 60, the SS and members of the Sipo-SD doomed 120 Tulle residents to hang, 99 of whom were actually tortured. In the days that follow, 149 men are deported to Dachau, where 101 lose their lives. In all, the crimes of the Wehrmacht, Waffen-SS and Sipo-SD claimed 218 civilian victims in Tulle. (Source Wikipedia)