CarfindSarkozy recalls long-forgotten Nazi massacre
By Associated Press
Monday, August 25, 2008 -
Monday, August 25, 2008 -
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(0) RateMAILLE, France - French President Nicolas Sarkozy paid homage today to victims of a 1944 Nazi massacre that was long forgotten by the history books, overshadowed by another event the same day: the liberation of Paris.
On Aug. 25, 1944, as the Allies liberated the French capital from the Nazis, retreating German troops massacred 124 of the 500 townspeople in the village of Maille in the Loire Valley, 160 miles to the southwest. Sarkozy said that by visiting the site he hoped to "repair an injustice."
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