The village 's Centre de la Memoire , or Memory Center , says 300,000 people visit the `` martyr village '' annually . A court has thrown out a case against a man accused of taking part in a massacre in France . SS troops killed 642 residents in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in June 1944 . The men were convicted and sentenced to death by an appeals court but their sentences have been overturned on appeal. But it said that it was unlikely the case against the pensioner , 89 , would be provable .
A court has thrown out a case against a man accused of taking part in a massacre in France . SS troops killed 642 residents in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in June 1944 . The men were convicted and sentenced to death by an appeals court but their sentences have been overturned on appeal. But it said that it was unlikely the case against the pensioner , 89 , would be provable .