French resistance fighters are said to have shot 47 Wehrmacht soldiers and a French woman suspected of collaboration on June 12, 1944. Edmond Réveil, who was 19 years old at the time, belonged to a resistance group that had taken numerous prisoners during an attack on German soldiers in Tulle.
"We forced them all to dig their own graves. Then we poured lime into it. And then we never talked about it again," he says. French authorities want to search for the mass grave and recover the remains of the war dead.