WW2 - They don't forget and have more respect for the past.

We did love this little town and so here is the closing peice on it.   I wanted to try to get an atmosphere of the central town square and the relaxed pace of life, I hadn't at that point realised I had captured another major part of past history; WW2.  I haven't got technology in place yet, but if you look on the photo above on the second from end pillar you will see a plaque, look like it might be a white menu. It isn't. It to commemorate the local town’s folk who were rounded up as sympathisers by the German's in WW2 and shot. Apparently there was an 'active' local resistance and maybe a people supplying route though the massive central surrounding countryside. Germans could not get anyone to inform and owe up to activities so a group of local 'suspects' including the local mayor were rounded up put against the wall and shot dead. A brutal way of dishing out justice and bound not to have got the right people; but when you have an occupying army maybe not surprising. Anyway I am working on getting a better shot of the plaque and I think it is nice that this is left as a permanent reminder to the horrors that happened in the past in what is now an amazingly nice part of France.