(CNN) -- A German court has thrown out a case against a former
SS member accused of participating in the massacre of 642 residents of a
French village during World War II.
The 89-year-old had been accused of murdering 25 people and aiding the
murder of several hundred others at Oradour-sur-Glane in central France
on June 10, 1944.
According to the indictment, troops surrounded the village before
rounding up all the residents in the town square and separating the men
from the women and children.
The men were shot in four barns, which were
then burned down. The women and children were imprisoned in a church
into which explosives and hand grenades were thrown. Troops then set
that building alight, killing any survivors of the initial attack.
There was no doubt that members of the man's Panzer regiment had killed
the Oradour-sur-Glane residents and burned down the village, the Cologne
Regional Court said in a statement Tuesday.
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