related to a specific figure, but much more, the staging of a spectacle of violence designed to humiliate the men." The bodies of the executed were taken down at the beginning of the evening by the members of the Chantiers de Jeunesse, under the orders of men of the 4th company of the battalion of scouts; despite the intervention of local authorities, they were buried on the site of a garbage dump in Cueille, without any effort for identification, and with only a brief impromptu ceremony that was cut short by the Germans, during which Father Espinasse, in the presence of the uniformed Prefect and his Cabinet Director, blessed the bodies. Deportations On 10 June, the hostages remaining at the weapons factory in Tulle were treated in the same manner as in the selection of the hanging victims the previous day: negotiations between members of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich and the SD, including Walter Schmald, and the French authorities, divided them into groups destined for deportation and those who would be pardoned by interventions. 311 men and 660 young members of the Chantiers de Jeunesse were transferred from Tulle to Limoges. After a new selection, in which members of the Milice played an essential role, 162 men and all the members of the Chantiers de Jeunesse were freed; 149 of the remaining prisoners were transferred to Poitiers, then on to Compiègne, and from there they were taken to Dachau concentration camp on the July 2: 101 would not survive. On 11 or 12 June, the 2nd SS Panzer Division began moving North to join the Normandy Front. With the massacres at Tulle and Oradour-sur-Glane, and other killings, it had killed 4000 people, including many civilians. Repression continued in Tulle in the weeks following the hangings. From 11 June to 31 July, the laboratory of the weapons factory was used as a centre of torture, where Collaborator militia cooperated with Walter Schmald. On 21 June, Prefect Trouillé saw there three militiamen no older than 20 pour acid on the facial wounds of a man they had just beaten with a blackjack. Tulle would also endure another raid on 21 June, following which 80 men were sent for forced labor in Austria. The German troops in Corrèze departed on 16 August 1944. In total, the crimes of the Wehrmacht, of the Waffen-SS and of the SD had claimed 218